Weather, Values, Capacity and Concern: Toward a Social-Cognitive Model of Specialty Crop Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Risk

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Guang Han, E. Schoolman, J. Arbuckle, L. Morton
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Abstract

As specialty crop production has become increasingly important to U.S. agriculture, public and private stakeholders have called for research and outreach efforts centered on risks posed by climate change. Drawing on a survey of specialty crop farmers, this study explores farmers’ perceptions of climate change risks. Underlying cognitive, experiential, and socio-cultural factors hypothesized to influence farmers’ climate change risk perceptions are tested using structural equation modeling techniques. Results show that specialty crop farmers exhibit an overall moderate concern about climatic risks. The more capable and prepared farmers feel themselves to be, the less concerned they are about climate change. Farmers who have recently experienced more extreme weather events perceive climate change to present greater risks. In addition, farmers’ risk perceptions are also shaped by attitudes toward human exemptionalism and productivism values. Based on these findings, we provide recommendations for outreach and future research.
天气、价值、能力和关注:一个特殊作物农民对气候变化风险感知的社会认知模型
随着特种作物生产对美国农业变得越来越重要,公共和私人利益相关者呼吁开展以气候变化带来的风险为中心的研究和推广工作。通过对种植特种作物的农民的调查,本研究探讨了农民对气候变化风险的看法。使用结构方程建模技术对假设影响农民气候变化风险感知的潜在认知、经验和社会文化因素进行了测试。结果表明,专业作物农民对气候风险的关注总体上是中等的。农民越觉得自己有能力、有准备,他们对气候变化的担忧就越少。最近经历了更多极端天气事件的农民认为气候变化带来了更大的风险。此外,农民的风险认知也受到对人类豁免主义和生产主义价值观的态度的影响。基于这些发现,我们提出了推广和未来研究的建议。
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CiteScore
13.30
自引率
1.80%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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