Personal and Professional Mitigation Behavioral Intentions of Agricultural Experts to Address Climate Change

Mitigation activities, whether at the personal level relating to lifestyle or on the professional level, especially in the agriculture sector, are widely encouraged by scientists and policymakers. This research empirically analyses the association between agricultural experts’ perceptions about clim...

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Published in:Environmental management (New York) 2023-08, Vol.72 (2), p.396-409
Main Authors: Zobeidi, Tahereh, Yazdanpanah, Masoud, Warner, Laura A., Lamm, Alexa, Löhr, Katharina, Sieber, Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Aquatic Pollution
Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
Climate Change
Climate change mitigation
Dependent variables
Depth perception
Distance factor
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecological effects
Ecology
Effectiveness
Environment
Environmental Management
Forestry Management
Humans
Intention
Multivariate statistical analysis
Nature Conservation
Psychological factors
Risk perception
Salience
Social Behavior
Surveys and Questionnaires
Waste Water Technology
Water Management
Water Pollution Control
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Summary:Mitigation activities, whether at the personal level relating to lifestyle or on the professional level, especially in the agriculture sector, are widely encouraged by scientists and policymakers. This research empirically analyses the association between agricultural experts’ perceptions about climate change and their intention to implement climate change mitigation. Based on survey data, individuals’ reported intention to implement personal and professional mitigation behavior is explained using a conceptual model. The structural equation modeling results suggest that the new ecological paradigm (NEP), institutional trust, and risk salience indirectly influence climate change mitigation intentions. The findings indicate that risk perception, personal efficacy, responsibility, belief in climate change occurring, and low psychological distance trigger a significantly greater intention to support personal and professional mitigation behaviors. However, the research framework is much stronger at predicting the intention to mitigate climate change in professional affairs compared to personal activities. The findings suggest that hypothetical distance factors only have a moderating effect on the relationship between higher climate change environmental values, institutional trust, risk salience, and mitigation intention. This paper analytically explores the regulating role of risk perception, hypothetical distance, personal efficacy, and responsibility between institutional trust, risk salience, and the NEP as independent concepts and intention to personal and professional mitigation behaviors as dependent variables. The findings of the study have important implications for encouraging personal and professional mitigation behaviors.
ISSN:0364-152X
1432-1009
DOI:10.1007/s00267-023-01815-y