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DOI	10.1007/s10584-018-2314-z
	Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types of Indian Western Himalayas
	Shukla R.; Agarwal A.; Sachdeva K.; Kurths J.; Joshi P.K.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	103
结束页码	119
卷号	152 期号:1
英文摘要	Climate change and variability have created widespread risks for farmers’ food and livelihood security in the Himalayas. However, the extent of impacts experienced and perceived by farmers varies, as there is substantial diversity in the demographic, social, and economic conditions. Therefore, it is essential to understand how farmers with different resource-endowment and household characteristics perceive climatic risks. This study aims to analyze how farmer types perceive climate change processes and its impacts to gain insight into locally differentiated concerns by farming communities. The present study is based in the Uttarakhand state of Indian Western Himalayas. We examine farmer perceptions of climate change and how perceived impacts differ across farmer types. Primary household interviews with farming households (n = 241) were done in Chakrata and Bhikiyasian tehsil in Uttarakhand, India. In addition, annual and seasonal patterns of historical data of temperature (1951–2013) and precipitation (1901–2013) were analyzed to estimate trends and validate farmers’ perception. Using statistical methods farmer typology was constructed, and five unique farmer types are identified. Majority of respondents across all farmer types noticed a decrease in summer and winter precipitation and an increase in summer temperature. Whereas the perceptions of impacts of climate change diverged across farmer types, as specific farmer types exclusively experienced few impacts. Impact of climatic risks on household food security and income was significantly perceived stronger by low-resource-endowed subsistence farmers, whereas the landless farmer type exclusively felt impacts on the communities social bond. This deeper understanding of the differentiated perception of impacts has strong implications for agricultural and development policymaking, highlighting the need for providing flexible adaptation options rather than specific solutions to avoid inequalities in fulfilling the needs of the heterogeneous farming communities. © 2018, Springer Nature B.V.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Food supply; Risk assessment; Risk perception; Change perceptions; Economic condition; Farmer perception; Farming communities; Resource endowments; Summer temperature; Western himalayas; Winter precipitation; Climate change; climate change; farmers attitude; food security; household survey; income; perception; precipitation (climatology); risk perception; temperature; trend analysis; Himalayas; India; Uttarakhand
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/147546
作者单位	Department of Energy and Environment, TERI University, New Delhi, 110070, India; Centre for Development Studies, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie University, Berlin, Germany; University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24–25, Potsdam, 14476, Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 60 12 03, Potsdam, 14412, Germany; GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.4: Hydrology, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany; School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India; Special Centre for Disaster Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shukla R.,Agarwal A.,Sachdeva K.,et al. Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types of Indian Western Himalayas[J],2019,152(1).
APA	Shukla R.,Agarwal A.,Sachdeva K.,Kurths J.,&Joshi P.K..(2019).Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types of Indian Western Himalayas.Climatic Change,152(1).
MLA	Shukla R.,et al."Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types of Indian Western Himalayas".Climatic Change 152.1(2019).