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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.002
	Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica
	Warner B.P.; Kuzdas C.; Yglesias M.G.; Childers D.L.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	30
英文摘要	In this paper, we discuss the theoretical relationships among interacting global change risks, valued livelihood goals, and adaptation limits. We build from research on the impacts of multiple and interacting global change risks in lesser-developed countries and seek to understand household adaptation limits in agrarian communities. We ask: What are valued livelihood goals among smallholder farmers in Northwest Costa Rica? How do socio-economic determinants of adaptive capacities determine their ability to meet these goals in the face of the impacts of interacting global change risks? Our data were based on focus groups, interviews, survey responses from 94 smallholder farmers, government statistics, and published literature. We analyzed our data using qualitative content analysis and quantitative logistic regression models. Our analysis showed that farmers perceived rice production as an identity, and that they were being forced to consider limits to their abilities to adapt to maintain that identity. We found that farm size, cattle ownership, years spent farming, and household income variety were determinants of their abilities to remain in rice production while maintaining sufficient levels of livelihood security. We also showed that for those households most vulnerable to water scarcity, their ability to successfully adapt to meet valued livelihood goals is diminished because adaptation to water scarcity increases vulnerability to decreased rice-market access. In this way, they become trapped by the inability to reduce their vulnerability to risks of the interaction between global changes and therefore abandon valued identities and livelihoods. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation limits; Costa Rica; Interacting risks; Transformative adaptation; Valued livelihood goals
学科领域	adaptive management; farm size; farmers attitude; global change; ownership; questionnaire survey; regression analysis; rice; smallholder; theoretical study; Costa Rica; Bos
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; farm size; farmers attitude; global change; ownership; questionnaire survey; regression analysis; rice; smallholder; theoretical study; Costa Rica; Bos
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/117557
作者单位	School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Wrigley Hall, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States; Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Holdsworth Hall AmherstMA 01060, United States; Environmental Decisions for Global Change Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación, Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Cartago, Costa Rica; Originative - Costa Rica, Costa Rica Office, Esparza, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Warner B.P.,Kuzdas C.,Yglesias M.G.,et al. Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica[J],2015,30.
APA	Warner B.P.,Kuzdas C.,Yglesias M.G.,&Childers D.L..(2015).Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica.Global Environmental Change,30.
MLA	Warner B.P.,et al."Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica".Global Environmental Change 30(2015).