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

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.76/0971
• Soggetto topico: Crops and climate - Canada; Crops and climate - Methodology; Agricultural ecology - Canada; Agriculture and state - Canada; Agriculture - Management - Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SmitBarry WallShirley Ellen WandelJohanna <1971->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Farming in a changing climate
• ISBN: 1-282-59368-4; 9786612593680; 0-7748-5597-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456161603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sustainability and the environment.