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From the Ground Up: A Complex Systems Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture

Buchsbaum, Karen D
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0354-0785
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1723972011784761

Abstract Details

2024, Ph.D., Antioch University, Antioch New England: Environmental Studies.
Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to global agriculture and food security. Small farms are especially vulnerable to the local impacts of large-scale drivers of change. Effective adaptation in agriculture requires working across scales, and geographic, political, and disciplinary boundaries to address barriers. I use elements of case study, agent-based modeling and serious games, to design a model of farmer decision-making using the sociocognitive framework of climate change adaptation. I examine how adaptation functions as a process, how complex dynamics influence farmer behavior, and how individual decisions influence collective behavior in response to climate change. This novel approach to adaptation research in agriculture examines the relationships between the contextual, compositional, and cognitive elements of the sociocognitive theory. The tools developed for this research have broad practical and theoretical future applications in climate adaptation research and policymaking. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).
James Jordan, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth McCann, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Dale Rothmann, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
328 p.
Agriculture; Agronomy; Climate Change; Ecology; Environmental Studies; Geography; Land Use Planning; Livestock; Plant Sciences; Political Science; Public Health; Regional Studies; Social Research; Sustainability; Systems Design; Urban Planning; Water Resource Management
climate change adaptation; agriculture; farming; serious games; simulation; decision-making; cognition, agent-based modeling; food security; self-efficacy; socioecological systems

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  • Buchsbaum, K. D. (2024). From the Ground Up: A Complex Systems Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1723972011784761

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Buchsbaum, Karen. From the Ground Up: A Complex Systems Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture. 2024. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1723972011784761.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Buchsbaum, Karen. "From the Ground Up: A Complex Systems Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1723972011784761

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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