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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02808-0
	The strength of green ties: Massachusetts cranberry grower social networks and effects on climate change attitudes and action
	Gareau B.J.; Huang X.; Pisani Gareau T.; DiDonato S.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	1613
结束页码	1636
卷号	162 期号:3
英文摘要	The cranberry, a commodity of social, cultural, and economic importance to New England, is under threat due to climatic change in this region of the United States. Yet, previous research reveals that cranberry growers have mixed attitudes about the anthropogenic roots of climate change, with many being skeptical. Building on the researchers’ analysis of the personal and ecological conditions that affect climate change attitudes among cranberry growers, this paper examines the effect that key actors in the growers’ social networks have on those attitudes. Through statistical analysis of survey data and content analysis of two important cranberry newsletters, the paper finds that cranberry growers’ perceived importance of two key cranberry growing institutions, the “sociopolitically focused” Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association and the “technically focused” University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station, as well as connections to other cranberry growers, is associated in nuanced ways with growers’ climate change attitudes. Drawing on the sociological theory of “social capital,” the paper examines how these social ties to key actors/institutions may result in greater threat perception or worry about climate change. It then considers how “green ties,” if harnessed and supported by these important actors in the cranberry grower network, might significantly mitigate climate change in the future. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Agriculture; Cape Cod; Climate action; Climate change; New England; Social capital; Social networks
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climate models; Climatic changes; Content analysis; Ecological conditions; Economic importance; Massachusetts; Social capitals; Sociological theories; University of Massachusetts; Climate change
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147020
作者单位	Department of Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gareau B.J.,Huang X.,Pisani Gareau T.,et al. The strength of green ties: Massachusetts cranberry grower social networks and effects on climate change attitudes and action[J],2020,162(3).
APA	Gareau B.J.,Huang X.,Pisani Gareau T.,&DiDonato S..(2020).The strength of green ties: Massachusetts cranberry grower social networks and effects on climate change attitudes and action.Climatic Change,162(3).
MLA	Gareau B.J.,et al."The strength of green ties: Massachusetts cranberry grower social networks and effects on climate change attitudes and action".Climatic Change 162.3(2020).