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42. Natural versus anthropogenic climate change: Swedish farmers’ joint construction of climate perceptions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Asplund, Therese (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10596
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(5), 560–575
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined general public perceptions, this study offers an audience-specific departure point. This article analyses how Swedish farmers perceive climate change and how they jointly shape their understandings. The agricultural sector is of special interest because it both contributes to and is directly affected by climate change. Through focus group discussions with Swedish farmers, this study finds that (1) farmers relate to and understand climate change through their own experiences, (2) climate change is understood either as a natural process subject to little or no human influence or as anthropogenic and (3) various communication tools contribute to the formation of natural and anthropogenic climate change frames. The article ends by discussing frame resonance and frame clash in public understanding of climate change and by comparing potential similarities and differences in how various segments of the public make sense of climate change.
43. Nepalese farmers’ climate change perceptions, reality and farming strategies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Budhathoki, Nanda Kaji (author) and Zander, Kerstin K. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 75 Document Number: D10803
- Journal Title:
- Climate and Development
- Notes:
- 13 pages., via online journal., The study explores the impacts of Nepali farmers’ climate change perceptions on their farming practices over the last three decades (1980–2014). Results from a survey with 496 farmers show that nearly all farmers attributed changes in crop varieties and cropping patterns mainly to technological and market-related factors and not to climate change. A comparison between perceptions and meteorological data shows that while perceptions of changes in maximum temperatures did match observed trends, perceptions of changes in minimum temperature and rainfall did not. The results indicate that the climate change message in the past 30 years has not been definite enough to have a consistent impact on either farmers’ perceptions or their farming practices. This may impede farmers’ adaptive capacity in dealing with increasingly severe future climate change impacts. Because of large variations in the micro-climate of the study locations and the locations of the weather stations from which we obtained the meteorological data, the results need to be treated with caution. However, we suggest that for farmers to effectively adapt to climate change, it may be necessary for responsible state and non-state actors to improve their communication on expected climate change impacts.
44. Networked resilience in rural Australia– a role for health promotion in regional responses to climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Van Beurden, Eric K. (author), Kia, Annie M. (author), Hughes, Denise (author), Fuller, Jeffery D. (author), Dietrich, Uta (author), Howton, Kirsty (author), and Kavooru, Suman (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Australia: Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10631
- Journal Title:
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia
- Journal Title Details:
- 22: (4) 54-60
- Notes:
- 7 pages., via online journal., Human health is indivisible from ecological health and there is increasing focus on climate change as the major preventable threat to the health of humanity. The direct associations between climate change and population health are well documented, as are potential co-benefits of climate action.1-6 Australia is entering a period of climatic extremes.7,8 The socially stable and agriculturally productive Northern Rivers region of New South Wales is set to experience increasing temperatures, storms, flooding and erosion.9,10 This will likely be compounded by changes in socio/political, environmental, agricultural and economic systems with resultant impacts on social and environmental determinants of health.11,12 How might a rural population of 280,000 respond? In 2007, community resilience to climate change was neither a state nor federal health promotion priority. The former North Coast Area Health Service Health Promotion (NCHP) adopted one promising direction: to foster a collaboration of existing organisations to accelerate regional action on climate change.13-15 The former NSW Department of Climate Change funded the pilot project: Resilience: building health from regional responses to climate change. The project incorporated principles from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory with emphasis on the concepts of resilience and
45. North Carolina Cooperative Extension professionals' climate change perceptions, willingness and perceived barriers to programming: an educational needs assessment
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Burnett, Rachel E. (author), Vuola, Aaron J. (author), Megalos, Mark A. (author), Adams, Damian C. (author), and Monroe, Martha C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06066
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(1) : 1RIB1
- Notes:
- 8 pages.
46. Perceptions of climate change and trust in information providers in rural Australia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Buys, Laurie (author), Aird, Rosemary (author), Van Megen, Kimberley (author), Miller, Evonne (author), and Sommerfeld, Jeffrey (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02803
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(2) : 170-188
47. Practical agricultural communication: Incorporating scientific and indigenous knowledge for climate mitigation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sereenonchai, Sukanya (author) and Arunrat, Noppol (author)
- Format:
- Online article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-03-26
- Published:
- Thailand: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10255
- Journal Title:
- Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences
- Notes:
- 8 pages., Via online journal., Agricultural communication to mitigate climate change enables information dissemination of both scientific knowledge (SCK) and indigenous knowledge (IDK) for practical farming. This research analyzed knowledge utilization and conducted community-based participatory communication to propose a practical agricultural communication framework for climate mitigation. Based on a qualitative method of data collection in Phichit province, the key findings showed that SCK and IDK can be mutually utilized to enhance the good relationship among the people and for the people with nature. The participatory communication processes consisted of planning, interventions, and monitoring and empowerment. The successful farmers employing the farming practices of not burning rice straw, rice straw composting, and alternative wetting and drying technique were the main senders. The messages were related to their farming practices focusing on a practical and understandable message and graphic explanations. Vinyl was selected as a communication material for signage in the most noticeable areas in their communities. This research highlights that participatory communication with group dynamics and communication promotion mechanisms at both local and national levels should be enhanced.
48. Seeing is not always believing: crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Niles, Meredith T. (author), Wiener, Sarah (author), Schattman, Rachel E. (author), Roesch-McNally, Gabrielle (author), and Reyes, Julian (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-26
- Published:
- USA: IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10345
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Research Letters
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(4)
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Via online journal article., 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.
49. Seeking information about climate change: effects of media use in an extended PRISM
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ho, Shirley S. (author), Detenber, Benjamin H. (author), Rosenthal, Sonny (author), and Lee, Edmund W.J. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Singapore
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: D06471
- Journal Title:
- Science Communication
- Journal Title Details:
- 36(3) : 270-295
50. Smallholders farmers' attitudes and determinants of adaptation to climate risks in East Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Shikuku, Kelvin M. (author), Winowiecki, Leigh (author), Twyman, Jennifer (author), Eitzinger, Anton (author), Perez, Juan G. (author), Mwongera, Caroline (author), and Läderach, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-03-08
- Published:
- Africa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08757
- Journal Title:
- Climate Risk Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 16 : 234-245