Investigating The Impact Of Social Capital And Social Networks On Farmers' Climate Change Adaptation

调查社会资本和社交网络对农民气候变化适应的影响

• 批准号: 2803521
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2803521
• 关键词: Investigating; Impact; Social; Capital; Networks

Aims and purpose of the researchClimate change is affecting farmers' production and livelihood around the world, especially in developing countries where most villagers are smallholder farmers with low access to knowledge, capital, and technological resources. In this situation, farmers need to deal with climate-related issues through more organized social networks and ties with various stakeholders to improve their social capital and adaptive capacity. Thus, in this study, those social networks and how they can be related to farmers' resilience will be investigated in rural areas in the center of Iran. Accordingly, the main research objectives of this study are to 1) know farmers' awareness of climate change and their strategies to cope with it, 2) to analyze the network structures of local farmers and investigate how they can affect their social capital and adaptive capacity, and 3) to recognize the most influential stakeholders in the studied network who are key actors in dealing with climate-related issues and increasing farmers' adaptation. There are also some important questions that this study seeks to answer. Including: 1. How is the studied farmers' climate change awareness and what are their strategies to cope with it? 2. How does the structure of farmers' network affect agricultural knowledge transfer, farmers' social capital, and adaptation to climate change? 3. Is there any difference in adaptation between farmers with different socio-economic characteristics, social networks, and levels of social capital?4. How can farmers' membership in different organizations (for example agricultural cooperatives) affect their capacity to adapt? What is the role of those organizations (governmental and non-governmental) in improving farmers' capacity to adapt? 5. Who are the most important stakeholders (farmers or institutions) that have a key role in the studied network who can affect the transfer of information in the farmers' network and their adaptation?

研究目的和目的气候变化正在影响世界各地农民的生产和生计，特别是在发展中国家，那里的大多数村民是小农，缺乏获得知识、资本和技术资源的机会。在这种情况下，农民需要通过更有组织的社会网络和与各种利益攸关方的联系来处理与气候有关的问题，以提高他们的社会资本和适应能力。因此，在这项研究中，将在伊朗中部的农村地区调查这些社交网络以及它们如何与农民的韧性相关。因此，本研究的主要研究目标是1)了解农民对气候变化的认识及其应对策略，2)分析当地农民的网络结构并调查他们如何影响他们的社会资本和适应能力，3)识别所研究网络中最有影响力的利益相关者，他们是应对气候相关问题和提高农民适应能力的关键参与者。这项研究还试图回答一些重要的问题。包括：1.被研究农民的气候变化意识如何？他们有什么应对策略？2.农民网络的结构如何影响农业知识转移、农民的社会资本和适应气候变化？3.不同社会经济特征、社会网络和社会资本水平的农民在适应能力上是否存在差异？4.农民在不同组织(如农业合作社)的成员资格如何影响他们的适应能力？这些组织(政府和非政府组织)在提高农民的适应能力方面发挥了什么作用？5.谁是在所研究的网络中发挥关键作用的最重要的利益攸关方(农民或机构)，谁可以影响农民网络中的信息传输及其适应？