In other words, such farmers are concerned and open to adaptive and mitigative action.
Human pressures on coastal seas are increasing and methods for sustainable management, including spatial planning and mitigative actions, are therefore needed.
As Howden et al. (2007) emphasize, if farmers do not believe that climate change is happening or do not perceive it as a threat, they will not likely undertake adaptive or mitigative actions.
Due to institutional path dependencies - that is, uncoordinated mainstreaming of adaptive and mitigative strategies in existing and new sectoral policies - the gap between the adaptation and mitigation discourses has widened even more [17].
Support for adaptive and mitigative responses to climate change was measured through three items, measured on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), gauging the degree to which participants support specific adaptation and mitigation actions.
The results support recent calls for reframing climate change from an environmental to a public health issue in order to increase public engagement in adaptive and mitigative behaviour change, and to increase support for climate change policy [ 5, 6].
The results support recent calls for reframing the impact of climate change from an environmental to a public health issue in order to increase public engagement in adaptive and mitigative behaviour change.
Most farmers were supportive of adaptation responses, but few endorsed GHG reduction, suggesting that outreach should focus on interventions that have adaptive and mitigative properties (e.g., reduced tillage, improved fertilizer management).
We look to the VBN literature, particularly that which has focused on public response to climate change, as a reference and guide to the development of a conceptual framework specific to our research questions about the relationships between trust in agents of influence, beliefs about climate change, perceived risk, and support for adaptive and mitigative responses in agriculture.
A British Columbia, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure field investigation of the dam on August 22, 2013 determined that there was no imminent threat to the bridge or road infrastructure, and no mitigative action was taken.
