Abstract
This article explores the role of risk perception in adaptation to stress through comparative case studies of coffee farmers' responses to climatic and non-climatic stressors. We hypothesized that farmers associating these changes with high risk would be more likely to make adaptations than those who saw the events as part of normal variation. Nevertheless, we found that farmers who associated events with high risk were not more likely to engage in specific adaptations. Adaptive responses were more clearly associated with access to land than perception of risk, suggesting that adaptation is more a function of exogenous constraints on decision making than perception.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 23-32 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Global Environmental Change |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- Adaptive capacity
- Central America
- Coffee
- Extreme weather
- Market shocks
- Mexico
- Risk perception
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Ecology
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law