The strength of green ties: Massachusetts cranberry grower social networks and effects on climate change attitudes and action.

ABSTRACT: 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"

SUBMITTER: Gareau BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7418585 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature