气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.12.003
	Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
	Paul C.J.; Weinthal E.S.; Bellemare M.F.; Jeuland M.A.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	36
英文摘要	Climate change is expected to have particularly severe effects on poor agrarian populations. Rural households in developing countries adapt to the risks and impacts of climate change both individually and collectively. Empirical research has shown that access to capital-financial, human, physical, and social-is critical for building resilience and fostering adaptation to environmental stresses. Little attention, however, has been paid to how social capital generally might facilitate adaptation through trust and cooperation, particularly among rural households and communities. This paper addresses the question of how social capital affects adaptation to climate change by rural households by focusing on the relationship of household and collective adaptation behaviors. A mixed-methods approach allows us to better account for the complexity of social institutions-at the household, community, and government levels-which drive climate adaptation outcomes. We use data from interviews, household surveys, and field experiments conducted in 20 communities with 400 households in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Our results suggest that qualitative measures of trust predict contributions to public goods, a result that is consistent with the theorized role of social capital in collective action. Yet qualitative trust is negatively related to private household-level adaptation behaviors, which raises the possibility that social capital may, paradoxically, be detrimental to private adaptation. Policymakers should account for the potential difference in public and private adaptation behaviors in relation to trust and social capital when designing interventions for climate adaptation. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation; Climate change; Ethiopia; Social capital; Trust
学科领域	adaptation; climate change; empirical analysis; social capital; cooperative behavior; developing world; household survey; policy making; public attitude; questionnaire survey; research method; rural area; rural population; Ethiopia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptation; climate change; empirical analysis; social capital; cooperative behavior; developing world; household survey; policy making; public attitude; questionnaire survey; research method; rural area; rural population; Ethiopia
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117409
作者单位	Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708, United States; Department of Applied Economics and Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Minnesota, 1994 Buford Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, United States; Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Box 90239, Durham, NC 27708, United States; Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Paul C.J.,Weinthal E.S.,Bellemare M.F.,et al. Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia[J],2016,36.
APA	Paul C.J.,Weinthal E.S.,Bellemare M.F.,&Jeuland M.A..(2016).Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia.Global Environmental Change,36.
MLA	Paul C.J.,et al."Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia".Global Environmental Change 36(2016).