Perceptions and responses to climate policy risks among california farmers

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1752-1760

  Niles, Meredith T ^a   Lubell, Mark ^a   Haden, Van R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change adaptation; Climate policy risk; Farmers; Psychological distance; Risk

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; POLICY MAKING; RISK FACTOR;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84889090653     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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