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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02703-8
	Does climate change framing matter? Evidence from an experiment of crop advisors in the Midwestern United States
	Singh A.S.; Church S.P.; Dang L.; Hennes E.P.; Prokopy L.S.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	1031
结束页码	1044
卷号	162 期号:3
英文摘要	Climate change is predicted to have increasingly negative consequences for the agricultural sector. Thus, it is important that crop advisors encourage farmers to adopt management practices that help mitigate or adapt to these changes. However, widespread skepticism persists regarding the existence of anthropogenic climate change and the need for conservation practices. Previous research indicates that individuals who are skeptical of the existence of climate change may be resistant to adopting conservation behaviors when they are described as addressing climate change impacts. Framing such practices as instead addressing “weather extremes” may be one method to encourage recommendations of such conservation practices. In the current study, we examined whether framing cover crops—a climate change-adaptive practice that enhances soil health—as a way to address that weather extremes rather than climate change would enhance crop advisors’ reported likelihood of recommending cover crops to their farmers, particularly among advisors who are skeptical of the existence of climate change. Support for cover crops among crop advisors in our sample was quite high overall, but as predicted, those who were more skeptical of climate change were less likely to recommend cover crops. However, framing condition (whether cover crops were described as addressing weather variability vs. climate change vs. no frame) had no main or moderating effects. These findings suggest that the use of climate change messaging in the framing of farm management practices may not negatively influence crop advisors’ recommendations as much as previously thought, but more research using other conservation practices is needed. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Climate change; Conservation; Cover crops; Crop advisor; Framing
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agricultural robots; Crops; Agricultural sector; Anthropogenic climate changes; Climate change impact; Conservation practices; Management practices; Moderating effect; Weather extremes; Weather variability; 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/147050
作者单位	Department of Environmental Studies, California State University, 6001 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95818, United States; Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Traphagen Hall, Bozeman, MT 59717, United States; Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, 195 Marsteller Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Singh A.S.,Church S.P.,Dang L.,et al. Does climate change framing matter? Evidence from an experiment of crop advisors in the Midwestern United States[J],2020,162(3).
APA	Singh A.S.,Church S.P.,Dang L.,Hennes E.P.,&Prokopy L.S..(2020).Does climate change framing matter? Evidence from an experiment of crop advisors in the Midwestern United States.Climatic Change,162(3).
MLA	Singh A.S.,et al."Does climate change framing matter? Evidence from an experiment of crop advisors in the Midwestern United States".Climatic Change 162.3(2020).