Evaluating the effects of individual-economic, social capital and psychological characteristics on adopting adaptation behaviors to water scarcity

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Masoud Yazdanpanah ¹
• Abbas Mirzaei ²
• Tahereh Zobeydi ³
• Ameneh Savari Mombeyni ⁴
• Seyedeh Kobra Homayon ⁴

¹ Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan

² Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture Engineering and Rural Development, Agricultural sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, Iran.

³ Zanjan university

⁴ Agricultural sciences and natural resources university of Khuzestan

10.30495/jae.2021.4533

Abstract

The results of binary logistic regression showed that the factors of education, distance to the center of agricultural services, number of products, self-efficacy, risk-taking and Family social capital were factors affecting job and income diversification. Also, marital status, education, membership in a cooperative, the intention to water conservation, social risk perception, self-efficacy, risk-taking, environmental attitudes, Community engagement, and the Family linkage have been affected on extra water purchase. marital status, environmental risk perception, risk salient, responsibility, work trust, and the family linkage were factors affecting water channels repair and variables of the number of products, intention to water conservation, risk-taking, trust, and Community Engagement have been affected on the use of unconventional water resources are abnormal. age, cooperative membership, intention to water conservation, environmental risk perception, economic risk perception, environmental risk perception, self-efficacy, risk salient, informal association (with friends and family), work trust and institutional trust have been effective on the cultivation of early-stage crops.

Keywords

• Farmers' adaptation behavior
• Water scarcity
• social capital
• psychological characteristics

20.1001.1.20086407.1400.13.3.1.4

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