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Analysis On The Influencing Factors Of Farmers’ Disaster Prevention Behaviors Under Extreme Climatic Background

Posted on:2015-01-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2309330434955923Subject:Rural and Regional Development
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Content:In the context of global warming, climate change is becoming a globallyrecognized environmental problems, especially in the past10years of worldwide climateanomalies to food production in many countries poses a serious impact caused widespreadconcern of the world.Our agriculture is a major problem, and farmers’ production and living morelivelihoods of people. In recent years, global climate change and the frequency of extremeweather events, resulting in agricultural production and farmers’ lives have been severelyaffected. Disaster prevention behaviors farmers launched a study and discussion. In thispaper, the study area in Jiangxi Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone is the mainproducing areas of agriculture, the region in recent years, disasters, and meteorologicaldisasters seriously affect agricultural production in the area. Therefore, the study of howfarmers prevent disaster and discussing and analyzing disaster prevention is particularlyimportant factors in response to agricultural production, while, the behavior of peasant lifeprevention is worth studying, and it is an important manifestation of farmer awareness ofdisaster prevention.Firstly, the behavior of specific prevention farmers, farmers own circumstances (age,farm life, leisure time), farmer awareness of climate change (average annualtemperature, annual precipitation, the frequency of various types of disasters, globalwarming, etc.), several aspects of the construction of government infrastructure(repetitive investment and private investment), information transmission, such asdescriptive statistics, and through the establishment of a binary logit model to empiricalanalysis concludes. The results show that the above four aspects are important factorsaffecting farmers prevention behavior. Finally, farmers disaster behavioral analysis to makerecommend accordingly measures for farmers and to respond to weather disasters, toensure and improve crop yields providing a reference.
Keywords/Search Tags:Climate change, Farmers prevention behaviors, Influencing factors, Logit model
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