气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Seeing is not always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors

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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/aafbb6
	Seeing is not always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors
	Niles M.T.; Wiener S.; Schattman R.E.; Roesch-Mcnally G.; Reyes J.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:4
英文摘要	As climate change is expected to significantly affect agricultural systems globally, agricultural farm advisors have been increasingly recognized as an important resource in helping farmers address these challenges. While there have been many studies exploring the climate change belief and risk perceptions as well as behaviors of both farmers and agricultural farm advisors, there are very few studies that have explored how these perceptions relate to actual climate impacts in agriculture. Here we couple survey data from United States Department of Agriculture farm service employees (n = 6, 514) with historical crop loss data across the United States to explore the relationship of actual climate-related crop losses on farm to farm advisor perceptions of climate change and future farmer needs. Using structural equation modelling we find that among farm advisors that work directly with farms on disaster and crop loss issues, there is a significant positive relationship between crop loss and perceived weather variability changes, while across all farm advisors crop loss is associated with reduced likelihood to believe in anthropogenic climate change. Further, we find that weather variability perceptions are the most consistently and highly correlated with farm advisors' perceptions about the need for farm adaptation and future farmer needs. These results suggest that seeing crop loss may not lead to climate change belief, but may drive weather variability perceptions, which in turn affect farm adaptation perceptions. This lends further evidence to the debate over terminology in climate change communication and outreach, suggesting that weather variability may be the most salient among agricultural advisors. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	agriculture; climate adaptation; farmer; structural equation model; weather variability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agriculture; Climate models; Crops; Digital storage; Risk perception; Agricultural system; Anthropogenic climate changes; climate adaptation; farmer; Structural equation modeling; Structural equation modelling; United states department of agricultures; Weather variability; Climate change; adaptive management; anthropogenic effect; climate change; perception; risk perception; terminology
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154652
作者单位	Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences and Food Systems Program, University of Vermont, United States; USDA Forest Service, Southeast Climate Hub, United States; USDA Forest Service, Northeast Climate Hub and University of Vermont Extension, United States; USDA Forest Service, Northwest Climate Hub, United States; USDA Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Climate Hub, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Niles M.T.,Wiener S.,Schattman R.E.,et al. Seeing is not always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors[J],2019,14(4).
APA	Niles M.T.,Wiener S.,Schattman R.E.,Roesch-Mcnally G.,&Reyes J..(2019).Seeing is not always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors.Environmental Research Letters,14(4).
MLA	Niles M.T.,et al."Seeing is not always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors".Environmental Research Letters 14.4(2019).