Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and variability in semi-arid rural southeastern Arizona, USA

• Published in: Natural resources forum Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 297 - 309
• Main Authors: Coles, Ashley R., Scott, Christopher A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2009; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adaptation; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Arizona; Climate; Climate change; Environmental impact studies; Farmers; Groundwater; Information; Livestock; Natural resource management; Ranches; Risk; Risk factors; Rural areas; Rural economics; Vulnerability; Arizona; USA, Southeast; USA, Arizona, Cochise Cty; USA, Arizona

Agricultural and livestock producers experiencing climate change and variability are simultaneously subject to other sources of environmental vulnerability, as well as political, social, and economic uncertainty. Producers' adaptive decision making takes into account short‐term seasonal factors...