ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Understanding the Attributes Related to Climate
Change Perceptions among Rural Households
in Highlands: The case of Northern Thailand
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Natural Resource Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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Ostrom Center for Advanced Study in Natural Resource Governance, Asian Institute of Technology,
Pathum Thani, Thailand
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Food Innovation, Nutrition, and Health, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Submission date: 2024-03-04
Final revision date: 2024-06-02
Acceptance date: 2024-08-03
Online publication date: 2025-01-27
Corresponding author
Takuji W Tsusaka
Natural Resource Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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There remains a scarcity of evidence regarding perceptions of climate change occurrences
and their impacts among people highly involved in monocropping systems in highland areas, especially
in Southeast Asia. This paper assessed villagers’ climate change perceptions and socioeconomic
attributes in Northern Thailand using primary data collected from 252 households, including farmers
and non-farmers, based on stratified random sampling from eight villages in the highlands of Nan
province, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics and probit regression. The result indicates
that climate change perceptions were primarily influenced by individual attributes rather than household
characteristics. One such attribute was the main occupation. Non-farmers were more likely to perceive
climate change phenomena such as increased drought, higher temperature, and change in the number
of rainy days, while farmers tended to perceive more climate change impacts such as pest and disease
outbreaks and losses in crop yields. Other significant attributes were gender and age. Men and younger
people were more likely to perceive climate change phenomena. Residential location, education,
household size, household income from agriculture, household income from non-agriculture, household
debt, number of farm plots, and landholding size were associated with some aspects of climate change
and its impacts.