Farming in a changing climate : agricultural adaptation in Canada / edited by Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smit, Barry.

Wall, Shirley Ellen.

Wandel, Johanna, 1971-

Series:

Sustainability and the environment.

Sustainability and the environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crops and climate--Canada.

Crops and climate.

Crops and climate--Methodology.

Agricultural ecology--Canada.

Agricultural ecology.

Agriculture and state--Canada.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture--Management--Canada.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In farming systems across Canada, effective risk management is necessary to deal with drought, flooding, and extreme weather, and to adapt to altered climate and weather conditions. Unfortunately, climate change risks and opportunities are not always well understood among researchers and policy makers in the Canadian agri-food sector. This book addresses that gap by providing a wide-ranging synopsis of what climate change means for Canadian agriculture, exploring different approaches to the topic, and presenting examples of current research. It covers all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems. This comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation; Part 2: Impact-Based Studies; Part 3: Context-Based Studies; Part 4: Process-Based Studies; Part 5: Conclusions; References; Contributors; Index; 1 Introduction; 2 Impact-Based Approach; 3 Context-Based Approach; 4 Process-Based Approach; 5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Eastern Canada; 6 Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairies

7 Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using Climate Change Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes 8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing Multiple Risks in Primary Agriculture; 9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in the Canadian Prairies; 10 Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South Saskatchewan River Basin; 11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability in Québec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change

12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change 13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in Southwestern Ontario Farming Systems; 14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an Agricultural Adaptation to Climatic Extremes in the Canadian Prairies; 15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-Related Rural Population Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years; 16 Policy Implications: Panelists' Comments; 17 Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for Canadian Agriculture;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-59368-4

9786612593680

0-7748-5597-5

OCLC:

311308139