Smallholder farmers’ behavioral preferences under the impact of climate change: A comparative analysis of two agricultural areas in China

Farmers’ behaviors to deal with climate change can be divided into two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation reduce the rate of change, while adaptation vulnerability change. In this study, we focused on factors influencing farmers’ behavioral preferences explored differences in their response different types regions. A structural equation model was constructed describe relationship between trust, risk perception, psychological distance severity, farmer behaviors. The results indicate that affecting vary greatly agricultural areas, salience, had an important influence behavior, perception only affects Trust not predict adaptability, but also explain choice For farmers farming pastoral belief, severity level trust have positive driving effects both findings provide suggestions for development public policy management approaches which could encourage active behavior among farmers.