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Global environmental change and agriculture : assessing the impacts

Title: Global environmental change and agriculture : assessing the impacts / edited by George Frisvold, Betsey Kuhn.
Publication: Northampton, Ma. ; Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998.

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Description

xiv, 354 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Global Environmental Change and Agriculture offers a comprehensive perspective on the consequences and possible policy solutions for climatic change as we move into the twenty-first century. It assesses the impact of potential future global climate change on agriculture and the need to sustain agricultural growth for economic development.
This book will be of special interest to agricultural, development and environmental economists as well as policy analysts in government and at international agencies confronting practical problems of environmental and economic assessment.

Series Statement

New horizons in environmental economics

Uniform Title

New horizons in environmental economics.

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Contents

1. Introduction / George Frisvold and Betsey Kuhn -- Pt. I. Global Environmental Change: Implications for Agricultural Research Systems. 2. Research Systems for Sustainable Agricultural Development / Vernon W. Ruttan. 3. Agricultural Diversity: Do We Have the Resources to Meet Future Needs? / Mary Knudson -- Pt. II. Environmental Accounting and Indexing. 4. Environmental Distortions and Welfare Consequences in a Social Accounting Matrix Framework / Elise Hardy Golan, Irma Adelman and Stephen Vogel. 5. Environmental Accounting and Agriculture / James Hrubovcak, Michael LeBlanc and Kelly Eakin. 6. Vulnerability of Crops to Climate Change: A Practical Method of Indexing / David Schimmelpfennig and Gary Yohe -- Pt. III. Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation. 7. Assessing Research on the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture / Harry M. Kaiser. 8. Climate Change and Agriculture: Effects on Developing Countries / Paul Winters, Rinku Murgai and Alain de Janvry [et al.].
9. Climate Change, World Agriculture and Land Use / Roy Darwin, Marinos Tsigas and Jan Lewandrowski [et al.]. 10. Carbon Abatement: Lessons from Second-Best Economics / Ian W. H. Parry.

ISBN

1858986311

LCCN

97032759

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