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September 22, 2025
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Beekeepers' intentions to adopt resilience strategies for climate change: a comparative and integrated approach using the theory of planned behavior and protection motivation theory

Publicated to: Frontiers In Climate. 7 1604488- - 2025-08-18 7(), DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2025.1604488

Authors: Ouertani, Emna; Erraach, Yamna; Arfa, Lamia; De-Magistris, Tiziana; Herrera, Selene Ivette Ornelas; Kallas, Zein

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Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon CITA, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Univ Carthage, Higher Sch Agr Mograne ESAM, Rural Econ Lab LER LR16INRAT07, Tunis, Tunisia - Author
Univ Carthage, Natl Inst Agron Tunisia INAT, Rural Econ Lab LER LR16INRAT07, Tunis, Tunisia - Author
Univ Politecn Cataluna, Ctr Res Econ & Agrofood Dev CREDA UPC, Castelldefels, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Beekeeping plays a vital role in global food security, contributing to the pollination of up to 30% of global food production and ensuring the sustainability of food supplies worldwide. However, climate change has significantly impacted beekeeping in recent years, affecting honeybees, pollination, and honey harvesting. Due to the effects of climate variability, which impose environmental strain on bees and beekeepers, modifications in management strategies and agricultural practices are essential to enhance biodiversity, guarantee agricultural sustainability, and ensure food security. This study aims to investigate the factors influencing beekeepers' intentions to adopt resilience strategies in response to climate change using protection motivation theory (PMT), the theory of planned behavior (TPB), and an extended PMT model. The study uses data obtained from a survey of 120 Tunisian beekeepers. The findings from the partial least squares analysis highlight the value and complementarity of the three models (TPB, PMT, and extended PMT), with the extended model offering superior explanatory and predictive power. The TPB model reveals the significant influence of perceived behavioral control and attitudes toward climate change resilience strategies on the intention to adopt them. The PMT model emphasizes the roles of self-efficacy, coping appraisal, and the perception of climate change occurrence in shaping adoption intentions, with self-efficacy being the most impactful factor. The extended PMT model further demonstrates that self-efficacy strongly influences perceived behavioral control. Overall, all three models show a positive and significant impact of intention on the selection of specific resilience strategies.

Keywords

AdaptationAfricaApiculturaAttitudeBeekeepingCambio climáticoClimate changeManagement-practicesModelPerceived controlPerceptionsPolinizaciónProtection motivation theory (pmt)Resilience strategiesResiliencia al climaSeguridad alimentariaSelf-efficacyStructural equation modelsTheory of planned behavior (tpb)Understanding farmers intentions

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Frontiers In Climate due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category .

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-11-29:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 4.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 4 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 9.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10532/7809

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Tunisia.

Acknowledgements linked to the item

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This article was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific research-Tunisia. This research is part of the R&D project TECHONEY-"Development of a blockchain-based ecosystem that allows an improved positioning of small producers of honey on local and international markets" (grant reference PCI 2022-132950), funded by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, as well as by the European Union, Next Generation EU/PRTR within the framework of the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA Section 2 Call 2021 - Multi-topic)