| Research on farmer householders’choice preference response to climate change adaptation behavior in Yutian Oasis of Xinjiang |
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| DOI：10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2014.05.034 |
| Key Words: farmer householder adaptation behavior choice preference |
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| Abstract: |
| Based on the field survey data from 600 farmer households in 15 Townships, using the Multivariate Logit (MNL) Model of the discrete choice model, analyzed the impacts of the factors of individual characteristics and external environment to a kind of adaptive behavior preference in the procedure of the farmer householders response to the climate change adaptive choice. The results showed that: The agricultural production experiences, education level and the credit support degree had the positive effects to change the planting structure. The farmer householder with longer agricultural production time and stronger borrowing capacity, and living in oasis and desert ecotone had the stro
ng aspiration to increase irrigation. The gender, annual family average net income and whether to obtain the loan were the main factors to influence the plastic film mulching areas. The framer householders with higher education level and annual average net income had more aspiration to increase crop diversity responding climate change. And the farmer householders more closely contacted with relative friends and neighbors, were more easy to hold the opinion of doubt and objection for changing seeding time. The farmer householders living in mountains and oasis desert ecotone had the lowest adaptive choice preference for the livestocks in captivity. |