Farmer Health and Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change and Variability. Part 1: Health as a Contributor to Adaptive Capacity and as an Outcome from Pressures Coping with Climate Related Adversities

Hogan, Edward Anthony; Berry, Helen; Ng, Suan Peng; Parkinson, Anne

Farmer Health and Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change and Variability. Part 1: Health as a Contributor to Adaptive Capacity and as an Outcome from Pressures Coping with Climate Related Adversities

Date

2011

Authors

Hogan, Edward Anthony

Berry, Helen

Ng, Suan Peng

Parkinson, Anne

Publisher

MDPI Publishing

Abstract

This paper examines the role farmers' health plays as an element of adaptive capacity. The study examines which of twenty aspects of adaptation may be related to overall health outcomes, controlling for demographic and on-farm-factors in health problems.