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RESEARCH ARTICLE: Attitude and Risk Perceptions about Climate Change in Farming Communities in Southern Ethiopia.
- Source :
- Environmental Practice; Mar2014, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p29-36, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Climate change knowledge and risk perceptions were examined in farming communities in Southern Ethiopia. Based on multistage probability sampling, data were collected from 2,188 respondents. Most respondents (80%) were concerned about risk of climate change. Variables that predicted knowledge and risk perception for both men and women were frequency of listening to the radio, household size, agroclimatic zone, and educational status. Additionally, age, household wealth, and social institution membership were predictive for women, and frequency of newspaper reading was predictive for men. The high levels of risk perception suggest receptiveness to context-appropriate strategies to reduce potential long-term vulnerability.Environmental Practice 16: 29–36 (2014) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- RISK perception
CLIMATE change
AGRICULTURAL climatology
FARMERS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14660474
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Environmental Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 95284382
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1466046613000628