What drives farmers' decision-making? To inform effective, efficient, and legitimate
governance of agricultural soils, it is important to understand the behaviour of those who …

Improving assessments of droughts risk for smallholder farmers requires a better
understanding of the interaction between individual adaptation decisions and drought risk …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

We analyze the factors affecting farmers' choice accounting for farm, farmer, and household
characteristics as well as elicited risk perception and risk preferences. We consider three …

Agent-based models (ABMs) have been adopted to simulate different kinds of complex
systems, from biological systems to complex coupled human-natural systems (CHANS). In …

CONTEXT The ability of a farm to cope with challenges is often conceptualised as resilience.
Although improving resilience of farms is a major policy goal in the European Union, the …

Adaptation to climate change is a complex process and requires sound understanding of
how climatic changes are perceived and interpreted at local level by dairy farmers. This …

Risk aversion is an important research area in the field of agricultural economics in the last
years. Creating effective and efficient risk management tools in an increasingly volatile …

The study used the hypothetical lottery-choice questions to measure risk aversion and a
detailed survey collected data on input use, farm production and non-farm activities to …

Smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions continuously face drought risk, leading to recurring
crop damage, income loss and food insecurity, and they are taking adaptive measures to …