The relationship between risk experience and risk response: a study of farmers and climate change
The relationship between risk experience and risk response: a study of farmers and climate change
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DOI：
10.1080/13669877.2016.1153506
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Conway, John
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作者：
Hamilton-Webb, Alice;Manning, Louise;Conway, John
在现有的文献中，风险经验对态度和行为风险反应的作用相对被忽视。最近的研究借鉴了气候变化作为一个概念的心理距离，指出了当地重要经验作为鼓励适当应对的驱动力的重要性。洪水的经验被用作本文的刺激，并强调是否直接和/或间接的经验，洪水风险与气候变化风险的不同反应。为了探讨气候变化风险的经验和应对农场缓解和适应的形式之间的关系，本文借鉴了在英格兰的农民，其中许多人都经历过洪水的案例研究。结果进行了定量调查，200名农民在格洛斯特郡，英格兰进行了讨论。统计分析发现，洪水的经历与对气候变化的高度关注密切相关。虽然也发现经验与行为反应之间存在联系，但样本最有可能将适应行为作为正常做法的一部分，而缺乏对气候变化风险的总体关注以及缺乏信息和咨询等因素可能是采取行动的主要障碍。风险沟通需要进一步强调气候变化与极端天气事件之间的联系，使农民能够将气候变化视为一种相关的和当地突出的现象，随后应提供有针对性的信息和建议，以清楚地说明农场应对的最佳手段。在可能的情况下，必须强调采取行动，使农民能够适应其他更直接的风险，如市场波动，在本研究中，农民更容易表现出关注。
Within the existing literature, the role of experience of risk on attitudinal and behavioural risk response has been relatively neglected. Recent research that draws on the psychological distance of climate change as a concept notes the importance of local, significant experience as a driver for encouraging appropriate response. The experience of flooding was used as the stimulus in this paper, and emphasis placed on whether direct and/or indirect experience of flood risk is associated with different responses to climate change risk. In order to explore the relationship between climate change risk experience and response in the form of on-farm mitigation and adaptation, this paper draws on a case study of farmers in England, many of whom have experienced flooding. Results from a quantitative survey undertaken with 200 farmers in Gloucestershire, England are discussed. Statistical analysis found experience of flooding to be significantly associated with a heightened concern for climate change. Although also finding an association between experience and behavioural response, the sample were most likely to be taking adaptive behaviour as part of normal practice, with factors such as lack of overall concern for climate change risk and absence of information and advice likely to be the main barriers to action. Risk communication needs to further emphasise the connection between climate change and extreme weather events to allow for farmers to perceive climate change as a relevant and locally salient phenomenon, and subsequent tailored information and advice should be offered to clearly illustrate the best means of on-farm response. Where possible, emphasis must be placed on actions that also enable adaptation to other, more immediate risks which farmers in this study more readily exhibited concern for, such as market volatility.