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Dollars From The Sea: Jacksonville And The Ocean Business, Committee Of 100 Jacksonville Area Chamber Of Commerce
Dollars From The Sea: Jacksonville And The Ocean Business, Committee Of 100 Jacksonville Area Chamber Of Commerce
City and Regional Planning -- Florida
Book details Jacksonville's oceanographic history 1967-1974
University Of North Florida Environmental Center Annual Report 2017, Maria Mark, James W. Taylor, Natalie Sassine, Tiffany Torres
University Of North Florida Environmental Center Annual Report 2017, Maria Mark, James W. Taylor, Natalie Sassine, Tiffany Torres
Annual Reports
2017 Annual Report of the Environmental Center at the University of North Florida
Agricultural Adaptation To Climate Change: How Risk Influences Decision-Making, Brandon Araujo
Agricultural Adaptation To Climate Change: How Risk Influences Decision-Making, Brandon Araujo
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Climate change is currently threatening the livelihoods of farmers in developing countries. Psychological models have been developed to identify factors associated with adapting to climate change; however, little work has investigated the role of farmers’ risk attitudes in these models. We assessed perceptions of adaptation cost and adaptation intentions for five drought- specific adaptive behaviors among 550 farmers from 12 villages in the dry zone of Sri Lanka, as well as their attitudes toward risk. Results suggest that perceived adaptation cost and risk attitude are negatively associated with adaptation intentions. The conditional effect of adaptation cost on adaptation intention as …