Farmers' adaptation and mitigation practices in the Upper Rhine Valley

Drivers, synergies and trade-offs

Bibliographic Data

ID4634714
AuthorsGaël Bohnert (0000-0002-3122-3042, CRESAT Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse France), Brice Martins (0000-0003-1515-2712, Université de Haute-Alsace), Brice Martin (0000-0002-1052-2449, CRESAT Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse France)
Year2023
Publication date2023-10-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/geoj.12551
OpenAlexW4388191140
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

Through semi-structured interviews, this work analyses the motives and drivers leading wine growers and crop farmers in the Upper Rhine Valley (France, Germany, Switzerland) to adopt climate change adaptation and mitigation practices. We show that the main motive is to adapt, seen from an individual and reactive point of view. However, these practices sometimes also bring negative side effects in the long term or on other actors, and considering other problematics. On the contrary, other farmers' thinking is more anticipatory and they pay more attention to the common good. Nevertheless, they are not necessarily the most successful in adaptation in the short term as they often are more affected. This shows the limits of the concept of adaptation, as centred on individuals and eluding issues that are not related to climate change. That is why we prefer considering system transitions, taking into account the interactions between the diverse problematics and actors

Adaptation (eye · Business · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Term (time · Work (physics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Ecology · Engineering · Forest Management and Policy · Psychology · Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis

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