TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental Concern in a Capitalist Economy
T2 - Climate Change Perception Among U.S. Specialty-Crop Producers
AU - Borlu, Yetkin
AU - Glenna, Leland
N1 - Funding Information:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-6002 Borlu Yetkin 1 Glenna Leland 2 1 University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA 2 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Yetkin Borlu, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Richmond, 302 Weinstein Hall, Richmond, VA 23173, USA. Email: [email protected] 1 2020 1086026619897545 © The Author(s) 2020 2020 SAGE Publications The agricultural sector offers a unique opportunity to examine the topic of climate change because agriculture is more susceptible to climate disruptions than many other industrial sectors. Based on the analysis of the survey data and in-depth interviews with specialty-crop producers in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and New York, we test the capacity of ecological modernization and treadmill of production perspectives to explain how resource-intensive producers recognize water availability and climate change as threats to their operation’s economic viability. We find that producers in capitalist markets recognize natural resource problems; however, they fail to respond to climate change beyond natural resource problems. We also find that local markets play a positive role in raising environmental awareness of producers. Finally, our finding on the association between the perceptions of water availability and climate change goes beyond the treadmill of production dualism that only theorizes the impacts of economic factors on the environment. climate change sustainable development environmental attitudes and behavior organizational behavior and the environment treadmill of production ecological modernization mixed methods National Institute of Food and Agriculture https://doi.org/10.13039/100005825 2012-51181-19878 edited-state corrected-proof typesetter ts1 Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was sponsored by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (Grant No. 2012-51181-19878; Project No. INDW-2012-01537). ORCID iD Yetkin Borlu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-6002
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PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - The agricultural sector offers a unique opportunity to examine the topic of climate change because agriculture is more susceptible to climate disruptions than many other industrial sectors. Based on the analysis of the survey data and in-depth interviews with specialty-crop producers in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, we test the capacity of ecological modernization and treadmill of production perspectives to explain how resource-intensive producers recognize water availability and climate change as threats to their operation’s economic viability. We find that producers in capitalist markets recognize natural resource problems; however, they fail to respond to climate change beyond natural resource problems. We also find that local markets play a positive role in raising environmental awareness of producers. Finally, our finding on the association between the perceptions of water availability and climate change goes beyond the treadmill of production dualism that only theorizes the impacts of economic factors on the environment.
AB - The agricultural sector offers a unique opportunity to examine the topic of climate change because agriculture is more susceptible to climate disruptions than many other industrial sectors. Based on the analysis of the survey data and in-depth interviews with specialty-crop producers in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, we test the capacity of ecological modernization and treadmill of production perspectives to explain how resource-intensive producers recognize water availability and climate change as threats to their operation’s economic viability. We find that producers in capitalist markets recognize natural resource problems; however, they fail to respond to climate change beyond natural resource problems. We also find that local markets play a positive role in raising environmental awareness of producers. Finally, our finding on the association between the perceptions of water availability and climate change goes beyond the treadmill of production dualism that only theorizes the impacts of economic factors on the environment.
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U2 - 10.1177/1086026619897545
DO - 10.1177/1086026619897545
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077720526
SN - 1086-0266
VL - 34
SP - 198
EP - 218
JO - Organization and Environment
JF - Organization and Environment
IS - 2
ER -