Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture

Edited by Ariel Dinar, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside and Robert Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor Emeritus of Forest Policy, Yale School of Environment, Yale University, New Haven, US

• Contents:1. IntroductionAriel Dinar and Robert MendelsohnPART I: AGRONOMIC STUDIES OF CLIMATE IMPACTS AND ADAPTATION2. Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide and Global Crop Production: Food Security and UncertaintyLewis H. Ziska3. Effects of Climate Variability on Domestic LivestockTerry L. Mader and John B. Gaughan4. From the Farmer to Global Food Production: Use of Crop Models for Climate Change Impact AssessmentAna Iglesias, Jeremy Schlickenrieder, David Pereira and Agustín Diz5. Investigating the Connections between Climate Change, Drought and Agricultural ProductionMichael Hayes, Donald A. Wilhite, Mark Svoboda and Miroslav TrnkaPART II: ECONOMIC STUDIES OF CLIMATE IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE6. Farm-level Impacts of Climate Change: Alternative Approaches for Modeling UncertaintyDannele E. Peck and Richard M. Adams7. Using Panel Data Models to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Climate Change on AgricultureOlivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone8. The Impact of Climate Change on US Agriculture: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Ricardian AnalysisEmanuele Massetti and Robert MendelsohnPART III: AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS ON THE ECONOMY9. Economy-wide Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture – Case Study for Adaptation Strategies in Sub-Saharan AfricaAlvaro Calzadilla, Tingju Zhu, Katrin Rehdanz, Richard S.J. Tol and Claudia Ringler10. Integrated Assessment Models – the Interplay of Climate Change, Agriculture and Land Use in a Policy ToolMarian Leimbach, Alexander Popp, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Nico Bauer, Jan Philipp Dietrich and David Klein11. The Role of Growth and Trade in Agricultural Adaptation to Environmental ChangeJohn ReillyPART IV: AGRICULTURAL MITIGATION12. Biofuels and Climate ChangeGal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal and David Zilberman13. The Present and Future Role for Agricultural Projects Under the Clean Development MechanismDonald F. Larson, Ariel Dinar and J. Aapris FrisbiePART V: ADAPTATION TO AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS14. Agricultural Adaptation: Needs, Findings and EffectsRuth A. Aisabokhae, Bruce A. McCarl and Yuquan W. Zhang15. Hydro-economic Modeling to Assess Climate Impact and Adaptation for Agriculture in CaliforniaJosué Medellín-Azuara, Richard E. Howitt and Jay R. Lund16. Reducing the Impact of Global Climate Change on Agriculture – the Use of Endogenous Irrigation and Protected Agriculture TechnologyAliza Fleischer and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya17. Climate Change and Technological Innovation in Agriculture: Adaptation through ScienceDouglas Gollin18. Adaptation to Climate Change in Mixed Crop–Livestock Farming Systems in Developing CountriesPhilip K. Thornton, Mario Herrero and Peter G. Jones19. Insurance as an Adaptation to Climate Variability in AgricultureAlberto Garrido, María Bielza, Dolores Rey, M. Inés Mínguez and M. Ruiz-Ramos20. An Analysis of the Choice of Livestock Species under Global Warming in African and Latin American FarmsS. Niggol Seo21. Climate Change, Drought and Agriculture: The Role of Effective Institutions and InfrastructureR. Maria Saleth, Ariel Dinar and J. Aapris Frisbie22. Conclusion and Future ResearchRobert Mendelsohn and Ariel DinarIndex

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