Farmer beliefs and concerns about climate change and attitudes toward adaptation and mitigation: Evidence from Iowa

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 551-563

  Arbuckle Jr , J Gordon ^a   Morton, Lois Wright ^a   Hobbs, Jon ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SURVEY DATA;

AGRICULTURE; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MITIGATION; VULNERABILITY;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878351637     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0700-0     Document Type: Article

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