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1. The role of social capital for farmers’ climate change adaptation in Lancang River basin in China.

Author

Gong, Yazhen, Li, Hao, Parks, Moon, Pang, Jun, and de Fraiture, Charlotte

Subjects
*SOCIAL capital, *CLIMATE change, *AGRICULTURAL productivity, *CLIMATOLOGY, *ENVIRONMENTAL policy
Abstract

This paper distinguishes between bridging and bonding social capital to assess their roles for individual farmers’ adaptation strategies taken through technology adoption. Based on primary data collected in Langcang River (LCR) basin area in southwestern China, the paper finds: (1) adaptation measures have been widely taken by surveyed households, but non-infrastructure-based measures are more prevalent than infrastructure-based measures and (2) surveyed households have strong social capital while having weak bridging social capital. Their bonding social capital has significantly positive relationship with their adaptation decisions, but bridging social capital does not have such statistically significant relationship. It recommends that the governments contemplate carefully how to help the poor to get a good combination of bonding and bridging social capital when designing policies to help the rural poor to improve their long-term adaptive capacity and achieve sustainable rural development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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2. The role of social capital for farmers’ climate change adaptation in Lancang River basin in China

Author

Hao Li, Charlotte de Fraiture, Yazhen Gong, Moon Parks, and Jun Pang

Subjects
Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Adaptive capacity, Economic growth, Bridging (networking), Data collection, 05 social sciences, Climate change, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, Water Resources Management, Lancang River, Social capital, 0502 economics and business, Development economics, Business, Adaptation, Bonding and bridging, 050207 economics, Rural area, China, Adaptation (computer science), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

This paper distinguishes between bridging and bonding social capital to assess their roles for individual farmers’ adaptation strategies taken through technology adoption. Based on primary data collected in Langcang River (LCR) basin area in southwestern China, the paper finds: (1) adaptation measures have been widely taken by surveyed households, but non-infrastructure-based measures are more prevalent than infrastructure-based measures and (2) surveyed households have strong social capital while having weak bridging social capital. Their bonding social capital has significantly positive relationship with their adaptation decisions, but bridging social capital does not have such statistically significant relationship. It recommends that the governments contemplate carefully how to help the poor to get a good combination of bonding and bridging social capital when designing policies to help the rural poor to improve their long-term adaptive capacity and achieve sustainable rural development.

Published
2017