Exploring Farmers' Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptation Intentions: Empirical Evidence from Austria.

ABSTRACT: The lack of timely adaptation in agriculture may hamper prosperous farm developments by neglecting risks and opportunities emerging from climate change. Understanding farmers' perceptual and socio-cognitive processes is key in order to encourage on-farm adaptation. We aim at investigating how farmers' individual cognition on climate change and adaptation as well as socio-environmental context factors affect agricultural adaptation intention and avoidance. We build on the Model of Private Proactive Adaptation to Climate Change (MPPACC) and apply a qualitative interview approach in two Austrian farming regions. Twenty semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 29 farmers. Based on the results of the qualitative content analysis, we have identified four groups of farmers, which diffe

SUBMITTER: Mitter H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6525669 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature