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Climate change and agriculture : an economic analysis of global impacts, adaptation and distributional effects / Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: New horizons in environmental economics | Edward Elgar E-Book ArchivePublisher: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar, 2009Description: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 246 Seiten) : Illustrationen, KartenISBN:
  • 9781849802239
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781847206701 (hardback) | 1847206700 (hbk.) | Erscheint auch als: Climate change and agriculture. Druck-Ausgabe Cheltenham [u.a.] : Edward Elgar, 2009. VII, 246 S.DDC classification:
  • 338.14091724 22
RVK: RVK: RB 10438 | RB 10447 | QS 200LOC classification:
  • S589.75
DOI: DOI: 10.4337/9781849802239Online resources: Summary: Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including both developed and developing economies. It provides both a good analytical basis for additional work and solid results for policy debate concerning income distributional effects such as abatement, adaptation, and equitySummary: 1. Introduction -- 2. The role of climate in agricultural production -- 3. Literature review of economic impacts of climate change on agriculture -- 4. The Ricardian method -- 5. Modeling adaptation to climate change -- 6. Structural Ricardian models -- 7. Ricardian analyses of aggregate data -- 8. Ricardian models of individual farms -- 9. Adaptation studies -- 10. Structural Ricardian studies -- 11. Summary of results -- 12. Policy implications and future research needsPPN: PPN: 102343296XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-1-EWE-ebook
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