Culture, climate change and farm-level groundwater management: An Australian case study

Sanderson, Matthew R.; Curtis, Allan

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.032

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“…However, causal attribution seems to be less relevant for decision-making in agricultural adaptation (Arbuckle et al 2015 ). Sanderson and Curtis 2016 operationalize VBN and demonstrate the importance of cultural factors for farmers’ climate change risk perception, which informs their decisions to apply adaptive water conservation strategies in an Australian region.…”

Section: Analyzing Perceptual and Socio-cognitive Processes In Agricumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Arbuckle Jr et al 2013 ; Doll et al 2017 ; Haden et al 2012 ; Mase et al 2017 ; Nicholas and Durham 2012 ), South America (e.g. Frank et al 2011 ), Europe (Alcon et al 2014 ; Otto-Banaszak et al 2011 ; Woods et al 2017 ), Asia (Abid et al 2015 ; Burnham and Ma 2017 ; Dang et al 2014 ; Soriano et al 2017 ), Africa (Mulenga et al 2017 ), and Australia and New Zealand (Niles et al 2016 ; Sanderson and Curtis 2016 ). The empirical results support the necessity to investigate and evaluate these processes within particular cultural and geographic contexts.…”

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“…The empirical results support the necessity to investigate and evaluate these processes within particular cultural and geographic contexts. For instance, Sanderson and Curtis 2016 show that cultural factors influence farmers’ climate change risk perception, which inform their adaptation decisions. Such detailed analyses for specific cultures and regions also contribute to expand and extend the knowledge on climate change adaptation in agriculture and establish the basis for subsequent integrative research.…”

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Exploring Farmers’ Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Intentions: Empirical Evidence from Austria

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The lack of timely adaptation in agriculture may hamper prosperous farm developments by neglecting risks and opportunities emerging from climate change. Understanding farmers’ perceptual and socio-cognitive processes is key in order to encourage on-farm adaptation. We aim at investigating how farmers’ individual cognition on climate change and adaptation as well as socio-environmental context factors affect agricultural adaptation intention and avoidance. We build on the Model of Private Proactive Adaptation to Climate Change (MPPACC) and apply a qualitative interview approach in two Austrian farming regions. Twenty semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 29 farmers. Based on the results of the qualitative content analysis, we have identified four groups of farmers, which differ in the formation process of adaptation intention and avoidance: (i) climate change adaptors, (ii) integrative adaptors, (iii) cost-benefit calculators, and (iv) climate change fatalists. Farmers who are part of groups (i)–(iii) form adaptation intentions, whereas climate change fatalists do not intend to adapt. According to our analysis, adaptation intentions are only formed if farmers are aware of effective adaptation measures, accept personal responsibility for their farms, and evaluate adaptation costs positively (i.e. adaptation appraisal). Farmers’ climate change appraisal as well as farm and regional characteristics are also perceived relevant for farmers’ adaptation decisions but seem to be less important than adaptation appraisal. Therefore, we conclude that engagement strategies and outreach efforts need not only address risks and opportunities, but should also strengthen farmers’ self-responsibility and offer adaptation measures tailored to the regional characteristics and the farmers’ needs.

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Section: Analyzing Perceptual and Socio-cognitive Processes In Agricumentioning

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“…Other options include large-N statistical studies (e.g. Hornberger et al, 2015), which seem very promising for comparative socio-hydrology, and survey research, for instance on how farmers actually react to hydrological change (Sanderson and Curtis, 2016) or on what actually determines environmental concern: personal characteristics or local environmental problems (Hannibal et al, 2016). The reason why this article focused on qualitative case study research and coupled modelling is that coupled modelling is the most popular approach in socio-hydrology and qualitative case study research is a contrasting approach with many potential benefits.…”

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An alternative approach for socio-hydrology: case study research

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2018

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Currently the most popular approach in socio hydrology is to develop coupled human-water models. This article proposes an alternative approach, qualitative case study research, involving a systematic review of (1) the human activities affecting the hydrology in the case, (2) the main human actors, and (3) the main factors influencing the actors and their activities. Moreover, this article presents a case study of the Dommel Basin in Belgium and the Netherlands, and compares this with a coupled model of the Kissimmee Basin in Florida. In both basins a "pendulum swing" from water resources development and control to protection and restoration can be observed. The Dommel case study moreover points to the importance of institutional and financial arrangements, community values, and broader social, economic, and technical developments. These factors are missing from the Kissimmee model. Generally, case studies can result in a more complete understanding of individual cases than coupled models, and if the cases are selected carefully and compared with previous studies, it is possible to generalize on the basis of them. Case studies also offer more levers for management and facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation. Coupled models, on the other hand, can be used to generate possible explanations of past developments and quantitative scenarios for future developments. The article concludes that, given the limited attention they currently get and their potential benefits, case studies deserve more attention in sociohydrology.

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“…Other factors may be important as well. The trick or "art" (see Savenije, 2009) is to zoom in on those factors that have the most explanatory power in the specific case. Potential explanations as well as alternative explanations should be checked carefully against the collected data.…”

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Currently the most popular approach in socio hydrology is to develop coupled human-water models. This article proposes an alternative approach, qualitative case study research, involving a systematic review of (1) the human activities affecting the hydrology in the case, (2) the main human actors, and (3) the main factors influencing the actors and their activities. Moreover, this article presents a case study of the Dommel Basin in Belgium and the Netherlands, and compares this with a coupled model of the Kissimmee Basin in Florida. In both basins a "pendulum swing" from water resources development and control to protection and restoration can be observed. The Dommel case study moreover points to the importance of institutional and financial arrangements, community values, and broader social, economic, and technical developments. These factors are missing from the Kissimmee model. Generally, case studies can result in a more complete understanding of individual cases than coupled models, and if the cases are selected carefully and compared with previous studies, it is possible to generalize on the basis of them. Case studies also offer more levers for management and facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation. Coupled models, on the other hand, can be used to generate possible explanations of past developments and quantitative scenarios for future developments. The article concludes that, given the limited attention they currently get and their potential benefits, case studies deserve more attention in sociohydrology.

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Culture, climate change and farm-level groundwater management: An Australian case study

Cited by 52 publications

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Exploring Farmers’ Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Intentions: Empirical Evidence from Austria

Exploring Farmers’ Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Intentions: Empirical Evidence from Austria

An alternative approach for socio-hydrology: case study research

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