The Possibility of Consensus Regarding Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Agriculture and Forestry among Stakeholder Groups in the Czech Republic

0552591 - ÚVGZ 2022 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Trnka, Miroslav - Bartošová, Lenka - Grammatikopoulou, Ioanna - Havlík, P. - Olesen, Jorgen Eivind - Hlavinka, Petr - Marek, Michal V. - Vačkářová, Davina - Skjelvag, A. - Žalud, Zdeněk
The Possibility of Consensus Regarding Climate Change Adaptation Policies in Agriculture and Forestry among Stakeholder Groups in the Czech Republic.
Environmental Management. Roč. 69, č. 1 (2022), s. 128-139. ISSN 0364-152X. E-ISSN 1432-1009
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_019/0000797
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : knowledge * coproduction * perspectives * information * mitigation * region * Climate change impacts * Climate adaptation * Climate policy * Stakeholder involvement * Cluster analysis
OECD category: Climatic research
Impact factor: 3.5, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00267-021-01499-2

As ongoing research efforts contribute to elucidating the consequences of climate change as well as adaptation and mitigation options, aligning the current research knowledge with stakeholder opinions and perceptions remains critical for adopting effective climate change policies. This paper utilizes an interactive survey to (1) address the aforementioned gap in studies involving three groups of stakeholders and opinion makers and (2) perform a comparative primary study of the climate change assumptions, risk perceptions, policy preferences, observations, and knowledge of Czech farmers, governmental policy-makers and researchers. This study shows that the stakeholder groups agree that the climate is clearly changing, attribute this change mostly to man-made causes and expect the negative effects to either prevail or be unevenly geographically distributed. The large majority of all three groups consider unmitigated climate change a major threat even by 2050 and agree that preparing in advance is the best sectoral strategy. Importantly, while investment in adaptation measures is considered the most efficient tool for accelerating the implementation of adaptation measures, the CAP and EU rules (as valid in 2016) are believed to hinder such measures. The results of this study have ramifications for the wider region of Central Europe.
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