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	Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment?
	Conradie, Beatrice; Piesse, Jenifer
通讯作者	Conradie, B
来源期刊	AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS-AFJARE
ISSN	1993-3738
出版年	2016
卷号	11 期号:4 页码:263-276
英文摘要	This study investigates the structure of farmers' risk perceptions in an arid area where agriculture faces many difficulties. Principal component analysis identified four components of risk from amongst twenty Likert scale items, including aspects of the natural and institutional environments. Index scores were created for each of the four components of risk, which were then explained using OLS regression. The intensity of perceived risk was inversely correlated with profitability of the farm enterprise. Management experience, time spent in nature and more education corresponded to perceptions of less risk, while risk increased with farm size, the presence of heirs, the severity of the 2011/2012 drought and the threat of jackal predation. More educated and experienced farmers, who are more profitable, were found to be more likely to be moderates, while those with heirs to succeed them and those with more intense jackal problems were more likely to be in the group with greater concerns. Four important results were found: 1) risk perceptions vary even within an apparently homogenous community, 2) economic factors dominate risk perceptions, 3) climate change concerns are crowded out by more immediate issues, and 4) coming to terms with predator management is a major concern.
英文关键词	Karoo risk perceptions climate change predation PCA k-means cluster analysis
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000396561700002
WOS关键词	WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; CONSERVATION PRACTICES ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; AGRICULTURE ; PERCEPTIONS ; ADOPTION ; PRODUCTIVITY ; TECHNOLOGY ; SHEEP
WOS类目	Agricultural Economics & Policy
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
Scopus学科分类	Univ Cape Town, Ctr Social Sci Res, ZA-7703 Rhodes Gift, South Africa.
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331803
作者单位	[Conradie, Beatrice] Univ Cape Town, Sch Econ, ZA-7703 Rhodes Gift, South Africa; [Conradie, Beatrice] Univ Cape Town, Ctr Social Sci Res, ZA-7703 Rhodes Gift, South Africa; [Piesse, Jenifer] Bournemouth Univ, Sch Business, Poole, Dorset, England; [Piesse, Jenifer] Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Agr Econ, Stellenbosch, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Conradie, Beatrice,Piesse, Jenifer. Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment?[J],2016,11(4):263-276.
APA	Conradie, Beatrice,&Piesse, Jenifer.(2016).Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment?.AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS-AFJARE,11(4),263-276.
MLA	Conradie, Beatrice,et al."Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment?".AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS-AFJARE 11.4(2016):263-276.