Farming in a changing climate : agricultural adaptation in Canada /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smit, Barry, Wall, Shirley Ellen, Wandel, Johanna, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, 2007.
Colección:Sustainability and the environment.
Temas:
Crops and climate > Methodology.
Crops and climate > Canada.
Agriculture > Canada > Management.
Agricultural ecology > Canada.
Agriculture and state > Canada.
Agricultural administration > Canada.
Cultures et climat > Canada.
Cultures et climat > Méthodologie.
Écologie agricole > Canada.
Politique agricole > Canada.
Agriculture > Gestion > Canada.
Agriculture > Administration > Canada.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
Agricultural ecology
Agriculture and state
Agriculture > Management
Crops and climate
Canada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Research approaches to climate change adaptation. Introduction / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel
  • Impact-based approach / Michael Brklacich, Barry Smit, Ellen Wall, and Johanna Wandel
  • Context-based approach / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel
  • Process-based approach / Johanna Wandel, Ellen Wall, and Barry Smit
  • Part 2: impact-baswed studies. Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture in Eastern Canada / Samuel Gameda, Andrew Bootsma, and Daniel McKenney
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture in the prairies / David Sauchyn
  • Agricultural water supply in the Okanagan basin: using climate change scenarios to inform dialogue and planning processes / Denise Neilsen, Stewart Cohen, Scott Smith, Grace Frank, Walter Koch, Younes Alila, Wendy Merritt, Mark Barton, and Bill Taylor
  • Part 3: context-based studies. Climate change adaptation in a wider context: conceptualizing multiple risks in primary agriculture / Ben Bradshaw
  • Biophysical and socio-economic stressors for agriculture in the Canadian prairies / Henry David Venema
  • Institutional capacity for agriculture in the South Saskatchewan River Basin / Harry P. Diaz and David A. Gauthier
  • The perception of risk to agriculture and climatic variability in Quebec: implications for farmer adaptation to climatic variability and change / Christopher Bryant, Bhawan Singh, and Pierre André
  • Part 4: process-based studies. Comparing apples and grapes: farm-level vulnerability to climate variability and change / Suzanne Belliveau, Ben Braqdshaw, and Barry Smit
  • Vulnerability and adaptation to climate risks in southwestern Ontario farming systems / Susanna Reid, Suzanne Belliveau, Barry Smit, and Wayne Caldwell
  • Community-based watershed management as an agricultural adaptation to climatic extremes in the Canadian Prairies / R. Cynthia Neudoerffer and David Waltner-Toews
  • Household access to capital and its influence on climate-related rural population change: lessons from the Dust Bowl Years / Robert A. McLeman
  • Part 5: conclusions. Policy implications: panellists' comments / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel
  • Climate change adaptation research and policy for Canadian agriculture / Ellen Wall and Barry Smit.

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