The acceptability of climate change in agricultural communities: Comparing responses across variability and change

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-77

  Raymond, Christopher M ^a,b   Spoehr, John ^c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Enviroconnect   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Agriculture; Farmers; Social barriers; Social limits

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; RURAL AREAS;

ACCEPTABILITY; ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION RESPONSE; ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; FARMER; LOCAL SCALE; SOCIAL BARRIER; SOCIAL LIMIT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TELEPHONE SURVEY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CEREAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FARMERS ATTITUDE; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDOWNER; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; VITICULTURE;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; INTERVIEW; MARKETING; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPRING; UNCERTAINTY; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84870826840     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. ABS National Regional Profile: Riverland (Statistical Local Area) 2010, Accessed Online: http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/781eb7868cee03e9ca2571800082bece/aa3752163c7d34e6ca257713001812ab!OpenDocument.
2. Adger W.N., Barnett J. Four reasons for concern about adaptation to climate change. Environment and Planning A 2009, 41:2800-2805.
3. Adger W.N., Dessai S., Goulden M., Hulme M., Lorenzoni I., Nelson D.R., Naess L.O., Wolf J., Wreford A. Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?. Climatic Change 2009, 93:335-354.
4. Alpizar F., Carlsson F., Naranjo M.A. The effect of ambiguous risk, and coordination on farmers' adaptation to climate change - a framed field experiment. Ecological Economics 2011, 70:2317-2326.
5. Bailey I. Geographical work at the boundaries of climate policy: a commentary and complement to Mike Hulme. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2008, 33:420-423.
6. Balston and Associates Guidelines for Undertaking an Integrated Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment as Part of Developing an Adaptation Plan (Draft) 2012, Local Government Association of South Australia, Adelaide.
7. Banks S.M., Salovey P., Greener S., Rothman A.J., Moyer A., Beauvais J., Epel E. The effects of message framing on mammography utilization. Health Psychology 1995, 14:178-184.
8. Barr S., Gilg A., Shaw G. Citizens, consumers and sustainability: (re)framing environmental practice in an age of climate change. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 2011, 21:1224-1233.
9. Bureau of Meteorology Drought Statement-Issued 6th August 2008 2008, Online:, (accessed 26.08.12.). http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/climate/drought/20080806.shtml.
10. Bureau of Meteorology Climate Education: Drought 2012, Online:, (accessed 26.08.12.). http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/c20thc/drought.htm.
11. Chong D., Druckman J.N. Framing Theory, Annual Review of Political Science 2007, pp. 103-126.
12. Crane T.A., Roncoli C., Hoogenboom G. Adaptation to climate change and climate variability: the importance of understanding agriculture as performance. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 2011, 57:179-185.
13. Crooks S., Levantis C. Australian Grains 2009, Grains Research and Development Council, Canberra.
14. Demeritt D. The construction of global warming and the politics of science. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2001, 91(2):307-337.
15. Edwards A., Elwyn G., Covey J., Matthews E., Pill R. Presenting risk information - a review of the effects of " framing" and other manipulations on patient outcomes. Journal of Health Communication 2001, 6:61-82.
16. Forsyth T. Critical Political Ecology: the Politics of Environmental Science 2003, Routledge, London.
17. Garden D. The federation drought of 1895-1903, El Niño and society in Australia. Common Ground: Integrating the Social and Environmental in History 2010, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. G. Massard-Guilbaud, S. Mosley (Eds.).
18. Gifford R. The dragons of inaction - psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation. American Psychologist 2011, 66:290-302.
19. Gifford R., Comeau L.A. Message framing influences perceived climate change competence, engagement, and behavioral intentions. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 2011, 21:1301-1307.
20. Government of South Australia, 2008. South Australian Government Response to National Drought Policy Review: Productivity Commission. Unpublished Report. Online: (accessed 26.08.12.). http://www.pc.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/83057/sub091.pdf.
21. Government of South Australia Wine: a Partnership 2010-2015 2010, South Australian Wine Industry Council, Adelaide.
22. Hennessy K., Fawcett R., Kirono D., Mpelasoka F., Jones D., Bathols J., Whetton P., Stafford Smith M., Howden M., Mitchell C., Plummer N. An Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on the Nature and Frequency of Exceptional Climatic Events 2008, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne.
23. Hoffman A.J. Climate change as a cultural and behavioral issue: addressing barriers and implementing solutions. Organizational Dynamics 2010, 39:295-305.
24. Hoffman A.J. Talking past each other? Cultural framing of skeptical and convinced logics in the climate change debate. Organization & Environment 2011, 24(1):3-33.
25. Hulme M. Geographical work at the boundaries of climate change. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2008, 33:5-11.
26. James J., Liddicoat C. Developing Industry Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: a Case Study for the McLaren Vale Viticulture and Fleurieu Peninsula Oliveculture Industries 2008, Government of South Australia, through the Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation, Adelaide.
27. Jones L., Boyd E. Exploring social barriers to adaptation: insights from Western Nepal. Global Environmental Change 2011, 21:1262-1274.
28. Lorenzoni I., Nicholson-Cole S., Whitmarsh L. Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 2007, 17:445-459.
29. Marshall N.A. Understanding social resilience to climate variability in primary enterprises and industries. Global Environmental Change 2010, 20:36-43.
30. Climate Change Science Compendium 2009 2009, United Nations Environment Programme, Online:, (Retrieved 20.08.12.). http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/, C.P. McMullen (Ed.).
31. Morton T.A., Rabinovich A., Marshall D., Bretschneider P. The future that may (or may not) come: how framing changes responses to uncertainty in climate change communications. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 2011, 21:103-109.
32. Nelson R., Kokic P., Crimp S., Martin P., Meinke H., Howden S.M., de Voil P., Nidumolu U. The vulnerability of Australian rural communities to climate variability and change: part II - integrating impacts with adaptive capacity. Environmental Science & Policy 2010, 13:18-27.
33. Nelson R., Kokic P., Crimp S., Meinke H., Howden S.M. The vulnerability of Australian rural communities to climate variability and change: part I - conceptualising and measuring vulnerability. Environmental Science & Policy 2010, 13:8-17.
34. Nisbet M.C. Communicating climate change: why frames matter for public engagement. Environment 2009, 51:12-23.
35. O'Brien K., Eriksen S., Nygaard L.P., Schjolden A. Why different interpretations of vulnerability matter in climate change discourses. Climate Policy 2007, 7:73-88.
36. Pearce M., Willis E., Wadham B., Binks B. Attitudes to drought in outback communities in South Australia. Geographical Research 2010, 48:359-369.
37. PIRSA Grain Value Chains 2011, Primary Industries and Resources, SA, Adelaide.
38. Poortinga W., Spence A., Whitmarsh L., Capstick S., Pidgeon N.F. Uncertain climate: an investigation into public scepticism about anthropogenic climate change. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 2011, 21:1015-1024.
39. Raymond, C.M., Robinson, G.M. Factors affecting farmers' adaptation to climate change: insights from formal institutions and communities of practice. Global Environmental Change, in press.
40. Sheng, E., Nossal, K., Zhao, S., Kokic, P., Nelson, R., 2008. Exploring the Feasibility of an Adaptive Capacity Index Using ABS Data. ABARE and CSIRO Report for the National Land and Water Resources Audit, Canberra.
41. Spence A., Pidgeon N. Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions 2010, 20:656-667.
42. Spence A., Poortinga W., Butler C., Pidgeon N.F. Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience. Nature Climate Change 2011, 1:46-49.
43. Stafford-Smith M., Horrocks L., Harve A., Hamilton C. Rethinking adaptation for a 4 degrees C world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2011, 369:196-216.
44. Tversky A., Kahneman D. The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science 1981, 211:453-458.
45. Vlassopoulos C.A. Competing definition of climate change and the post-Kyoto negotiations. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 2012, v(1):104-118.
46. Wine Australia Wine Regions - Riverland 2011, Online:, (accessed 10.12.11.). http://www.wineaustralia.com/australia/Default.aspx%3ftabid%3d4487.