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Handbook on climate change and agriculture / edited by Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elgar original reference Handbook on climate change and agriculture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Environmental aspects.
- Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (531 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore, any impact on it will have significant economic, social and political ramifications. Scholars from around the world and from various fields have been brought together to explore this important topic. The contributions found here analyze direct agronomic effects, the economic impacts on agriculture, agricultural impacts on the economy, agricultural mitigation and farmer adaptation. The authors argue
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Agronomic studies of climate impacts and adaptation
- pt. 2. Economic studies of climate impacts on agriculture
- pt. 3. Agricultural impacts on the economy
- pt. 4. Agricultural mitigation
- pt. 5. Adaptation to agricultural impacts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-38352-7
- 9786613383525
- 0-85793-986-6
- OCLC:
- 772844866
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