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Climate change opportunities reduce farmers' risk perception: Extension of the value-belief-norm theory in the context of Finnish agriculture

dc.contributor.authorSorvali, Jaana
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xing
dc.contributor.authorKaseva, Janne
dc.contributor.departmentid4100110210
dc.contributor.departmentid4100310210
dc.contributor.departmentid4100111010
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0371-7149
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8167-5434
dc.contributor.organizationLuonnonvarakeskus
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T05:50:24Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-27T17:58:06Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T05:50:24Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractGlobal agriculture faces severe challenges due to climate change. For boreal agriculture, climate change might also bring opportunities as the growing season lengthens, if the risks of climate change are managed properly. Agricultural production is a source of greenhouse gases, while agricultural land has also a great possibility to mitigate climate change as a carbon sink. Farmers are the central group for implementing these actions. Their views and beliefs contribute to their corresponding pro-environmental agricultural behavior. This research is based on the theory of value-belief-norm (VBN) as a predictive model of pro-environmental agricultural behavior. We extend the theory by studying how opportunities caused by climate change affect pro-environmental behavior in agriculture and present differences between farmer groups and experiment with the longitudinal possibilities of the theoretical model. Based on the structured survey responses from 4,401 farmers in Finland in 2018 and 2000 responses in 2020, we found that all the elements of VBN theory did help to predict intention for climate change mitigation, among which felt possibility to perform mitigation practices was the strongest predictor while risk perception was rather an unimportant one. Furthermore, opportunities caused directly or indirectly by climate change have an effect on Finnish farmer's implementation of mitigation practices. Therefore, future efforts in agricultural research and policy in Finland should concentrate to bring forth concrete farm-level mitigation practices with proven environmental benefits and the direct and indirect opportunities should be given more attention.
dc.description.vuosik2022
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dc.format.pagerange12 p.
dc.identifier.olddbid494775
dc.identifier.oldhandle10024/552216
dc.identifier.urihttps://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/11111/5245
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2022091258300
dc.language.isoen
dc.okm.corporatecopublicationei
dc.okm.discipline515
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationei
dc.okm.openaccess1 = Open access -julkaisukanavassa ilmestynyt julkaisu
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dc.publisherFrontiers Media SA
dc.relation.articlenumber939201
dc.relation.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2022.939201
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFrontiers in Psychology
dc.relation.issn1664-1078
dc.relation.volume13
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.source.identifierhttps://jukuri.luke.fi/handle/10024/552216
dc.subjectmaatalous
dc.subjectilmasto
dc.subjectpsykologia
dc.subjectVBN-teoria
dc.subjectmahdollisuus
dc.subjectmaanviljelijät
dc.subjectkyselytutkimus
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectopportunity
dc.subjectfarmer
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectvalue-belief-norm theory
dc.subjectsurvey
dc.subjectFinland
dc.teh41007-00017604
dc.teh41007-00140700
dc.teh41007-00208501
dc.titleClimate change opportunities reduce farmers' risk perception: Extension of the value-belief-norm theory in the context of Finnish agriculture
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dc.type.okmfi=A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä|sv=A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift|en=A1 Journal article (refereed), original research|
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