Risk perception and adaptive responses to climate change and climatic variability in northeastern St. Vincent

Smith, Rose-Ann

doi:10.1007/s13412-017-0456-3

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“…The results showed that an investigation of responses or the decision to respond to some of the impacts that they have experienced as a result of climate change and climatic variability leads to the development of different types of perceptions, including religious, ill informed, experienced-based, and knowledge-based perceptions. It is argued here that these forms of perception may result in non-adaptive, proactive or reactive adaptive behavior [42]. After studying farmers' response to and perception of climate change risks, Wang et al [43] believed that extreme climate changes such as rising temperature, decreased precipitation and increased frequency of drought would affect farmers' perception and response to climate change.…”

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confidence: 97%

A Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Risk Response Perception Paths between Northern and Southern Shaanxi

Xue¹,

Zhou²

2021

JRACR

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The public's awareness of climate change risks is the basis for their choice of adaptation action. A good understanding of the key factors that affect the public's perception of climate change risk is critical to climate change risk management. In this paper, a path model was constructed to analyze the path of climate change risk response perception in northern Shaanxi based on 1660 public survey data in northern Shaanxi, which was compared with that of southern Shaanxi. The results showed that (1) there are three causal paths in northern Shaanxi, that is, the public's awareness of climate change issues, awareness of ecological stability, and awareness of climate change causes, to affect response status; there are nine causal paths in southern Shaanxi. (2) There are four related routes in northern Shaanxi and 19 in southern Shaanxi. In short, compared with southern Shaanxi, there are fewer perception paths and simpler models for climate change risk response in northern Shaanxi. (3) The degree of concern for climate change issues and the perception of the causes of climate change influence the establishment of the causal path of climate change risk perception in northern Shaanxi. The major factors that influence climate change risk response perception in southern Shaanxi are climate change risk reason perception, industrial structure adjustment perception, and energy conservation, and emission reduction perception. (4) The response perception path in northern Shaanxi is simpler than that in southern Shaanxi, and there are fewer causal and related paths that impact climate change risk response perception. (5) Finally, through the comparative analysis of the path of climate change risk response perception in northern Shaanxi and southern Shaanxi, this paper provides a reference for coping with climate change risks in northern and southern Shaanxi.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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A Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Risk Response Perception Paths between Northern and Southern Shaanxi

Xue¹,

Zhou²

2021

JRACR

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“…For example, a study of fishers' knowledge of climate change in the Caribbean found a high level of awareness that deforestation and burning of fossil fuels lead to climate change (56). In The Bahamas, young females were found to have a high awareness of climate change (57), whereas in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, farmers recognized a difference in weather patterns (58). Awareness of climate change is affected by numerous factors, with different studies finding that those with higher levels of education and wealth, as well as younger people, have increased awareness (39,(59)(60)(61).…”

Section: Environmental Psychology: Knowledge Awareness and Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Smith's (58) study of farmers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines found that factors that influence perceptions include religion, whether or not climate impacts are experienced, knowledge, and lack of information. Once impacts are experienced, a person is more likely to have adaptation measures in place (58). Chandra & Gaganis (39) also found that people think that natural hazards are related to religious beliefs.…”

Section: Environmental Psychology: Knowledge Awareness and Perceptionsmentioning

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Climate Change and Small Island Developing States

Thomas

Baptiste

Martyr-Koller

et al. 2020

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

152

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Despite their heterogeneity, small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being particularly at risk to climate change, and, as they share numerous common traits, the United Nations recognizes them as a special group. SIDS have been quite vocal in calling attention to the challenges they face from climate change and advocating for greater international ambition to limit global warming. Here, we unpack factors that are helpful in understanding the relationship between climate change and SIDS through a review of studies that span disciplines and methodologies. We assess patterns of hazards, exposure, and vulnerability; impacts and risks; awareness and knowledge; adaptation planning and implementation; mitigation; loss and damage; and climate justice to provide an overarching review of literature on climate change and SIDS. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 45 is October 19, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…Besides perceptions of climate change and vulnerability, socio-demographic variables, and social, physical, human, and natural endowments, along with farm structural variables, have also been used to explain adaptation to climate change [15,16,52]. Knowledge, either collected through (formal) education or study can broaden the perceived ability to adapt, the perceived effectiveness of the available coping response, and the self-efficacy of farmers [16,41,50].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Social capital opens access to information and resources, leading to a greater ability to adapt. It has been shown that access to reliable information on weather and climate change influences perceived vulnerability and adaptation behavior [9,11,45,52,57,58].…”

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Farmers’ Perceived Vulnerability and Proactive versus Reactive Climate Change Adaptation in Chile’s Maule Region

2021

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Changes in climatic conditions are unavoidable and irreversible and an early and effective adaptation in farming systems will be vital for resilient agriculture. Although the extant literature has described factors that explain climate change adaptation, the roles of proactive versus reactive adaptation related to perceived vulnerability are still underexplored. The aim of our study was to open a new angle of discussion by linking farmers’ perceptions of vulnerability with their adaptation response, and exploring the dynamic of such a relationship. Semi-structured interviews with farmers were held in the Maule Region of central Chile (n = 36). The interview included questions o about main agricultural challenges, perceptions of climate change and its impact, adaptation strategies, and perceptions of vulnerability, exposure, sensitivity, and ability to adapt. In order to interpret the interview data, a content analysis procedure was followed. The results indicate that farmers respond differently by either engaging in proactive or reactive adaptation behavior. Furthermore, the patterns of either proactive or reactive adaptation behavior can be explained by structural factors and social and human capital. While structural factors, such as production systems and financial capital, explain engaging in adaptation to climate change, social and human capital act as enhancing factors that explain proactive adaptation. Future policies on adaptation behavior should focus on promoting proactive forms of adaptation behavior by developing and enhancing social connections and access to information, as well as on the provision of financial schemes to enable efficient and effective adaptation within the agricultural sector.

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Risk perception and adaptive responses to climate change and climatic variability in northeastern St. Vincent

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

A Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Risk Response Perception Paths between Northern and Southern Shaanxi

A Comparative Analysis of Climate Change Risk Response Perception Paths between Northern and Southern Shaanxi

Climate Change and Small Island Developing States

Farmers’ Perceived Vulnerability and Proactive versus Reactive Climate Change Adaptation in Chile’s Maule Region

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