Rural Nevada and climate change: vulnerability, beliefs, and risk perception

Autor:	Ahmad Saleh, Safi, William James, Smith, Zhnongwei, Liu
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Adult Aged 80 and over Greenhouse Effect Male Risk Rural Population Climate Change Culture Politics Agriculture Public Policy Middle Aged Droughts Public Opinion Humans Regression Analysis Female Perception Aged Nevada
Zdroj:	Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis. 32(6)
ISSN:	1539-6924
Popis:	In this article, we present the results of a study investigating the influence of vulnerability to climate change as a function of physical vulnerability, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity on climate change risk perception. In 2008/2009, we surveyed Nevada ranchers and farmers to assess their climate change-related beliefs, and risk perceptions, political orientations, and socioeconomic characteristics. Ranchers' and farmers' sensitivity to climate change was measured through estimating the proportion of their household income originating from highly scarce water-dependent agriculture to the total income. Adaptive capacity was measured as a combination of the Social Status Index and the Poverty Index. Utilizing water availability and use, and population distribution GIS databases; we assessed water resource vulnerability in Nevada by zip code as an indicator of physical vulnerability to climate change. We performed correlation tests and multiple regression analyses to examine the impact of vulnerability and its three distinct components on risk perception. We find that vulnerability is not a significant determinant of risk perception. Physical vulnerability alone also does not impact risk perception. Both sensitivity and adaptive capacity increase risk perception. While age is not a significant determinant of it, gender plays an important role in shaping risk perception. Yet, general beliefs such as political orientations and climate change-specific beliefs such as believing in the anthropogenic causes of climate change and connecting the locally observed impacts (in this case drought) to climate change are the most prominent determinants of risk perception.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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