Research handbook on climate change and agricultural law / edited by Mary Jane Angelo, Anel Du Plessis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Angelo, Mary Jane, editor.

Du Plessis, Anél, editor.

Series:

Research Handbooks in Climate Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Agricultural laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Bringing together scholars from across the globe, this timely book astutely untangles the climate-food web and critically explores the nexus between climate change, agriculture and law, upon which food security and climate resilient development depends.

Contents:

Untangling the climate-food web : achieving food security and agricultural climate-resilience / Mary Jane Angelo

Climate change and agriculture under the United Nations framework convention on climate change and related documents / Jonathan Verschuuren

Resilience and transformation of agro-ecosystems in a changing climate / Lance H. Gunderson

Climate change, complexity, agriculture and challenged governance / Paul Martin

Climate change and water law in agriculture / Robert W. Adler

Climate change and invasive species law in agriculture : a Southern Hemisphere view of key legal and institutional issues in Australia / Elodie le Gal

Genetically modified food crops in an era of climate change : an answer in search of a problem / Rebecca M. Bratspies

Adapting agriculture through land use controls / Keith H. Hirokawa

Much ado about methane : intensive animal agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions / Michelle Nowlin and Emily Spiegel

Adaptation of agricultural trade and investment rules to climate change / Christian Häberli

Agriculture and payments for ecosystem services in the era of climate change / J.B. Ruhl

12. Climate change and agrofuels : Brazilian ethanol and the Cerrado biome / Sérgio Sauer, José Paulo Pietrafesa and Pedro Araujo Pietrafesa

Adaptation to climate change in smallholder agriculture in Kenya : the role of law / Robert Kibugi

Agricultural land use conflict in the context of climate change : an Australian case study / Amanda Kennedy and Amy Cosby

Climate change and land grabbing / Akachi Odoemene.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-78471-064-4

OCLC:

980874891