Household Barriers to Climate Change Action: Perspectives from Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Hernández, Liliana González; Meijles, Erik; Vanclay, Frank

doi:10.3390/su11154178

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“…We also identified several themes from the open-ended question that were not covered by the theoretical model, including that some household members indicate that they perceive their educational level, general knowledge, financial resources, and government assistance to be important in their decision to take action or not. The ready availability of supportive infrastructure (e.g., recycling, public transport) was also important to taking climate change action [47].…”

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Factors that Influence Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Action: A Household Study in the Nuevo Leon Region, Mexico

Hernández

Meijles

Vanclay

2019

Climate

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Household-level mitigation and adaptation actions are important because households make a significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and are severely affected by climate change. However, there is still very little understanding of the factors that influence household-level mitigation and adaptation action. From a review of literature, we identified the factors that potentially influence climate mitigation and adaptation actions of households, which we then tested using survey data from 622 households in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Nuevo Leon is a major emitter of greenhouse gasses and is a state where climate-related disasters are recurrent and expected to increase in frequency and severity. Results from ordinal regression analyses showed that perceived knowledge and financial self-efficacy greatly influenced the extent of household-level action taken. To a lesser extent, the age and educational level of the respondent also affected action. Respondents pointed out the need to know about different aspects of climate change. An implication of our study is the value of recognizing the importance of perceptions, as mitigation and adaptation actions are shaped by perceptions of climate change alongside socio-demographic characteristics. This may have significant implications for policies and campaigns promoting household-level action to increase resilience to climate change.

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Factors that Influence Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Action: A Household Study in the Nuevo Leon Region, Mexico

Hernández

Meijles

Vanclay

2019

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“…Household head gender was found to be negatively related and significant at 1%. It is commonly known that climate variability does not affect people equally and that gender is a critical factor in understanding vulnerability to climate variability (Goodrich et al, 2019). Abebe and Mulu (2017) stated that home gardening is dominated and associated with women.…”

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“…In general, the farming households do not follow a single adaptive strategy; different strategies are taken to maximize households' positive survival. However, farming households respond to climate variability effects, as use of adaptation strategies are influenced by their socioeconomic factors (Gonz alez-Hern andez et al, 2019). Ziervogel et al (2014) opine that various studies on adaptation to climate have been carried out in South Africa.…”

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Determinants of adaptation to climate variability among farming households in Tyhume Valley communities, Eastern Cape province, South Africa

Mtintsilana

Akinyemi

Zhou

2021

IJCCSM

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Purpose This paper aims to determine factors affecting adaptation to climate variability on crop production among farming households in Tyhume Valley. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted an empirical analysis of the impact of adaptation on crop yield of farming households and estimated the factors affecting adaptation to climate variability on farming households. The analysis used primary data from 205 farming households practicing crop production in Tyhume Valley communities. Findings Based on binary logit results, factors affecting rural farming households’ adaptation to climate variability are gender, age, heatwave, employment status, strong high wind occasional experience and cell phone. The adaptation measures adopted by the farming households in the study area include irrigation (94.8%), crop rotation (66%), changing crop variety (7.4%) and other methods of adaptation were found to be (1.3%). The other methods of adaptation used included the use of ash to kill (intuku) mole and using dirty water from washing dishes and clothes when irrigating to kill parasites on crops. Originality/value This research paper will be an addition to the body of knowledge on adaptation strategies to climate variability in South Africa, especially at the rural farming household level. This study may assist the rural communities in decision-making when dealing with the challenges of climate variability on their crop production, thereby increasing their crop production. The information gathered in this study might assist policymakers in revising the existing policies. This study will also help rural farming households to practice appropriate adaptation strategies.

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“…Residents and community members, for example, can only use spontaneous and impactminimization measures for housing adaptation, rather than preventive actions, to effectively minimize flood impacts on their house and property. Lack of funds also limits households' ability to mitigate the effects of climate change on their farming activities [41]. Indeed, Zhai et al [23] and Harvey et al [19] discovered that farmers' ability to invest in their farms and adapt management practices to climate change is limited by limited financial resources.…”

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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation of Households in U-Tapao River Sub-Basin, Thailand

Choosuk¹,

Khunwishit²,

Chevakidagarn³

2021

IJSDP

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Flood, storm, and drought have frequently impacted households in the U-Tapao River Sub-basin, Songkhla Province, Thailand, as a result of climate change. Studying how to assist them in better adapting to the effects of climate change is a critical mission that researchers should strive to achieve. The goals of this study are to (1) investigate the effects of climate change on households in the U-Tapao River Sub-basin, (2) examine the adaptation strategies they used, (3) the challenges they faced when attempting to adapt, and (4) provide recommendations for future adaptation. The study was carried out in the jurisdictions of three local government authorities. A survey questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data from 300 households, which was then analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. To supplement survey data, qualitative data were collected from 50 key informants via in-depth interviews and focus-group discussions. Climate change impacted households in four ways, according to the findings: health, housing, agriculture, and livelihood activities. Although households can take general measures to mitigate the effects of climate change on their health and livelihood, they do not appear to be able to take preventive measures to minimize flooding impacts on their house and property, nor do they appear to be able to adopt on-farm adaptation strategies to prevent income loss. The main impediment to taking more effective measures is a lack of funds, knowledge, and technical assistance. As a result, practical recommendations are provided at the end of this paper to help overcome such challenges and encourage households to adopt more adaptation strategies.

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Household Barriers to Climate Change Action: Perspectives from Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Cited by 13 publications

References 47 publications

Factors that Influence Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Action: A Household Study in the Nuevo Leon Region, Mexico

Factors that Influence Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Action: A Household Study in the Nuevo Leon Region, Mexico

Determinants of adaptation to climate variability among farming households in Tyhume Valley communities, Eastern Cape province, South Africa

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation of Households in U-Tapao River Sub-Basin, Thailand

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