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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456161603321

Titolo

Farming in a changing climate [[electronic resource] ] : agricultural adaptation in Canada / / edited by Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-59368-4

9786612593680

0-7748-5597-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Sustainability and the environment

Altri autori (Persone)

SmitBarry

WallShirley Ellen

WandelJohanna <1971->

Disciplina

333.76/0971

Soggetti

Crops and climate - Canada

Crops and climate - Methodology

Agricultural ecology - Canada

Agriculture and state - Canada

Agriculture - Management - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation; Part 2: Impact-Based Studies; Part 3: Context-Based Studies; Part 4: Process-Based Studies; Part 5: Conclusions; References; Contributors; Index; 1 Introduction; 2 Impact-Based Approach; 3 Context-Based Approach; 4 Process-Based Approach; 5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Eastern Canada; 6 Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairies

7 Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using Climate Change Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes 8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing Multiple Risks in Primary Agriculture; 9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in the Canadian Prairies; 10 Institutional Capacity for



Agriculture in the South Saskatchewan River Basin; 11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability in Québec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change

12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change 13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in Southwestern Ontario Farming Systems; 14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an Agricultural Adaptation to Climatic Extremes in the Canadian Prairies; 15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-Related Rural Population Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years; 16 Policy Implications: Panelists' Comments; 17 Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for Canadian Agriculture;