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

Published Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Sustainability and the environment Sustainability and the environment. Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Crops and climate -- Methodology Crops and climate -- Canada Agriculture -- Canada -- Management Agricultural ecology -- Canada Agriculture and state -- Canada Agricultural administration -- Canada BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. NATURE -- Natural Resources. Agricultural ecology Agriculture and state Agriculture -- Management Crops and climate Canada Form Electronic book Author Smit, Barry. Wall, Shirley Ellen Wandel, Johanna, 1971- LC no. 2008378699 ISBN 9780774855976 0774855975

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