Collaborative Research on Farm-Level Decisions in The Face of Global Warming

要对人类对全球变暖的反应可能产生的影响作出有效预测，就需要对人类对全球变暖的反应过程有一套现实的假设。这些假设必须包含关于人类在信息处理和学习方面的局限性的知识。该项目旨在通过关注农业决策，建立一个理论框架，作为这一系列假设的基础。具体而言，该项目考察了个人（农场层面）关于生产和管理的决策与对天气和气候的看法之间的关系，特别是对气候变化的看法（即气候变化）。（全球变暖）。这些研究还将调查提供最佳学习的一组条件，即对气候（和气候变化）信息的最佳利用，因此也具有规范性含义。

Developing valid predictions of the likely impacts of human response to global warming requires a realistic set of assumptions about the process by which humans react to global warming. These assumptions must incorporate knowledge about human limitations in information processing and learning. This project aims to develop a theoretical framework that can serve as the basis for such a set of assumptions by focussing on agricultural decisions. Specifically the project examines the relationship between individual(farm-level) decisions about production and management versus perceptions about weather and climate, especially perceptions about changes in climate(i.e., global warming.) These studies will also investigate the set of conditions that provide for optimal learning, i.e., best usage of climate (and climate change) information, and thus also have prescriptive implications.