干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Farmers' Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil

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DOI	10.3389/fenvs.2021.735595
	Farmers' Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil
	Magalhaes, Henrique Fernandes; Feitosa, Ivanilda Soares; Araujo, Elcida de Lima; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino
通讯作者	Albuquerque, UP (corresponding author)，Univ Fed Rural Pernambuco, Dept Biol, Programa Posgrad Etnobiol & Conservacao Nat, Recife, PE, Brazil. ; Albuquerque, UP (corresponding author)，Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Biociencias, Dept Bot, Lab Ecol & Evolucao Sistemas Socioecol, Recife, PE, Brazil.
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
EISSN	2296-665X
出版年	2022
卷号	9
英文摘要	People living in areas vulnerable to diseases caused by extreme climate change events, such as semiarid regions, tend to recognize them quickly and, consequently, develop strategies to cope with their effects. Our study investigated the perception of diseases by farmers living in the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil and the adaptive strategies locally developed and used. To this end, the effect of the incidence and severity of locally perceived diseases on the frequency of adaptive responses adopted by the farmers was tested. The research was conducted in rural communities in the Pernambuco State, Northeastern Region of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews with 143 farmers were conducted to collect information about major drought and rainfall events, the perceived diseases related to these events, and the adaptive strategies developed to mitigate them. The incidence and severity of diseases perceived by farmers were calculated using the Participatory Risk Mapping method and the frequency of adaptive strategies. Our findings demonstrated that few climate change-related diseases were frequently mentioned by farmers, indicating low incidence rates. Among them, direct transmission diseases were the most frequently mentioned. Adaptive strategies to deal with the mentioned diseases related to prophylactic behavior were less mentioned, except if already utilized. Our model demonstrated that incidence was the only explanatory variable with a significant impact on the adaptive strategies used to deal with the effects of these risks on health. Our findings suggest that the estimated incidence of diseases should be considered in the development of predictive climate change models for government policy measures for the public health security of populations in areas of greater socio-environmental vulnerability.
英文关键词	climate change semi-arid smallholder-farming sector disease perception adaptive strategies
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000752620600001
WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES ; LOCAL PERCEPTIONS ; RISK ; AGRICULTURE ; COMMUNITY ; TRENDS
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376535
作者单位	[Magalhaes, Henrique Fernandes; Feitosa, Ivanilda Soares; Araujo, Elcida de Lima; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino] Univ Fed Rural Pernambuco, Dept Biol, Programa Posgrad Etnobiol & Conservacao Nat, Recife, PE, Brazil; [Magalhaes, Henrique Fernandes; Feitosa, Ivanilda Soares; Araujo, Elcida de Lima; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino] Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Biociencias, Dept Bot, Lab Ecol & Evolucao Sistemas Socioecol, Recife, PE, Brazil
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Magalhaes, Henrique Fernandes,Feitosa, Ivanilda Soares,Araujo, Elcida de Lima,et al. Farmers' Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil[J],2022,9.
APA	Magalhaes, Henrique Fernandes,Feitosa, Ivanilda Soares,Araujo, Elcida de Lima,&Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino.(2022).Farmers' Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil.FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE,9.
MLA	Magalhaes, Henrique Fernandes,et al."Farmers' Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil".FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 9(2022).