1,523
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Climate change, risk perceptions and barriers to adaptation among forest growers in New Zealand

ORCID Icon, &
Pages 433-448 | Received 31 Oct 2022, Accepted 23 May 2023, Published online: 14 Jun 2023

References

  • Ameztegui A, Solarik KA, Parkins JR, Houle D, Messier C, Gravel D. 2018. Perceptions of climate change across the Canadian forest sector: the key factors of institutional and geographical environment. PloS One. 13(6):e0197689.
  • Andersson E, Keskitalo ECH, Lawrence A. 2017. Adaptation to climate change in forestry: a perspective on forest ownership and adaptation responses. Forests. 8(12):493-512.
  • Blennow K. 2012. Adaptation of forest management to climate change among private individual forest owners in Sweden. Forest Policy and Economics. 24:41–47.
  • Blennow K, Persson E, Gonçalves L, Borys A, Dutcă I, Hynynen J, Janeczko E, Lyubenova M, Merganic J, Merganičová K, et al. 2020. The role of beliefs, expectations and values in decision-making favoring climate change adaptation—implications for communications with European forest professionals. Environmental Research Letters. 15:114061.
  • Blennow K, Persson J, Tome M, Hanewinkel M. 2012. Climate change: believing and seeing implies adapting. PloS One. 7(11):e50182.
  • Blennow K, Persson J, Wallin A, Vareman N, Persson E. 2014. Understanding risk in forest ecosystem services: implications for effective risk management, communication and planning. Forestry. 87(2):219–228.
  • Bostrom A, Hayes AL, Crosman KM. 2019. Efficacy, action, and support for reducing climate change risks. Risk Analysis. 39(4):805–828.
  • Brown P. 2017. Survey of rural decision makers, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare research. Wellington. New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research.
  • Eriksson L. 2017. The importance of threat, strategy, and resource appraisals for long-term proactive risk management among forest owners in Sweden. Journal of Risk Research. 20(7):868–886.
  • Escarcha JF, Lassa JA, Palacpac EP, Zander KK. 2018. Understanding climate change impacts on water buffalo production through farmers’ perceptions. Climate Risk Management. 20:50–63.
  • Fischer AP. 2019. Adapting and coping with climate change in temperate forests. Global Environmental Change. 54:160–171.
  • Grant RL. 2014. Converting an odds ratio to a range of plausible relative risks for better communication of research findings. BMJ. 348: f7450. pmid:24464277.
  • Grothmann T, Patt A. 2005. Adaptive capacity and human cognition: the process of individual adaptation to climate change. Global Environmental Change. 15(3):199–213.
  • Hair JF, Black WC, Babin BJ, Anderson RE., Tatham RL 2014. Multivariate data analysis. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited.
  • Harrell Jr FE, Lee KL, Mark DB. 1996. Multivariable prognostic models: issues in developing models, evaluating assumptions and adequacy, and measuring and reducing errors. Statistics in Medicine. 15(4):361–387.
  • Hoke M, Ross B, Wickesberg R, Lütkenhöner B. 1984. Weighted averaging — theory and application to electric response audiometry. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 57(5):484–489.
  • Keenan RJ. 2015. Climate change impacts and adaptation in forest management: a review. Annals of Forest Science. 72(2):145–167.
  • Le Dang H, Li E, Nuberg I, Bruwer J. 2014. Understanding farmers’ adaptation intention to climate change: a structural equation modelling study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Environmental Science & Policy. 41:11–22.
  • Manley B. 2018. Intentions of forest owners following harvest of post-1989 forest. Wellington: Ministry for Primary Industries.
  • Mead E, Roser–Renouf C, Rimal RN, Flora JA, Maibach EW, Leiserowitz A. 2012. Information seeking about global climate change among adolescents: the role of risk perceptions, efficacy beliefs, and parental influences. Atlantic Journal of Communication. 20(1):31–52.
  • Moser SC, Ekstrom JA. 2010. A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(51):22026–22031.
  • MPI. 2019. Climate issues facing farmers. Wellington: Ministry of Primary Industries.
  • MPI. 2022. New Zealand's forests. Wellington: Ministry of Primary Industry; [accessed 19 Jul 2022]. https://www.mpi.govt.nz/forestry/new-zealandforests-forest-industry/about-new-zealands-forests/.
  • NEFD. 2019. National Exotic Forest Description Survey. Wellington: Ministry for Primary Industries, New Zealand Forest Owners Association, New Zealand Farm Forestry Association. https://www.teururakau.govt.nz/dmsdocument/34425/direct.
  • Nelson HW, Williamson TB, Macaulay C, Mahony C. 2016. Assessing the potential for forest management practitioner participation in climate change adaptation. Forest Ecology and Management. 360:388–399.
  • NZFOA. 2018. Terms of reference: small and medium enterprises FFA/FOA Committee. Forest Owners Association & New Zealand Farm Forestry Association. p. 6. https://wwwnzfoaorgnz/images/stories/pdfs/SMECTOR070818pdf.
  • Piya L, Maharjan KL, Joshi NP. 2019. Adaptation strategies and factors influencing the adaptation choices. Socio-Economic Issues of Climate Change.
  • Regasa DT, Akirso NA. 2019. Determinants of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies: an application of protection motivation theory in Konta district, South Western Ethiopia. European Review of Applied Sociology. 12(19):49–73.
  • Rodríguez-Cruz LA, Niles MT. 2021. Awareness of climate change’s impacts and motivation to adapt are not enough to drive action: a look of Puerto Rican farmers after Hurricane Maria. PloS One. 16(1):e0244512.
  • Rogers RW. 1975. A protection motivation theory of fear appeals and attitude change. The Journal of Psychology. 91(1):93–114.
  • Rothman KJ. 2012. Epidemiology: an introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.
  • Seidl R, Aggestam F, Rammer W, Blennow K, Wolfslehner B. 2016. The sensitivity of current and future forest managers to climate-induced changes in ecological processes. Ambio. 45(4):430–441.
  • Singh AS, Zwickle A, Bruskotter JT, Wilson R. 2017. The perceived psychological distance of climate change impacts and its influence on support for adaptation policy. Environmental Science & Policy. 73:93–99.
  • Sousa-Silva R, Ponette Q, Verheyen K, Van Herzele A, Muys B. 2016. Adaptation of forest management to climate change as perceived by forest owners and managers in Belgium. Forest Ecosystems. 3(1):22-33.
  • Stedman RC. 2004. Risk and climate change: perceptions of key policy actors in Canada. Risk Analysis. 24(5):1395–1406.
  • Tenny S, Hoffman MR. 2017. Odds ratio; [accessed 2 Sept 2022]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431098/.
  • Tesfahun AA, Chawla AS. 2020. Risk perceptions and adaptation strategies of smallholder farmers to climate change and variability in North Shoa Zone, Ethiopia. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal. 31(1):254–272.
  • Upadhaya S, Arbuckle JG. 2021. Examining factors associated with farmers’ climate-adaptive and maladaptive actions in the US Midwest. Frontiers in Climate. 3:677548. doi:10.3389/fclim.2021.677548.
  • Villamor GB, Dunningham A, Stahlmann-Brown P, Clinton PW. 2022. Improving the representation of climate change adaptation behaviour in New Zealand’s forest growing sector. Land. 11(3):364. doi:10.3390/land11030364.
  • Villamor GB, Wakelin SJ, Dunningham A, Clinton PW. 2023. Climate change adaptation behaviour of forest growers in New Zealand: an application of protection motivation theory. Climatic Change. 176(2):3. doi:10.1007/s10584-022-03469-x.
  • Vulturius G, André K, Swartling ÅG, Brown C, Rounsevell MD, Blanco V. 2018. The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden. Regional Environmental Change. 18(2):511–520.
  • Watt MS, Kirschbaum MU, Moore JR, Pearce HG, Bulman LS, Brockerhoff EG, Melia N. 2019. Assessment of multiple climate change effects on plantation forests in New Zealand. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. 92(1):1–15.
  • Williamson TB, Nelson HW. 2017. Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 47:1567–1576.
  • Yousefpour R, Temperli C, Bugmann H, Elkin C, Hanewinkel M, Meilby H, Jacobsen JB, Thorsen BJ. 2013. Updating beliefs and combining evidence in adaptive forest management under climate change: a case study of Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) in the Black Forest, Germany. Journal of Environmental Management. 122:56–64.