Farming in a Changing Climate

Agricultural Adaptation in Canada

Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, Johanna Wandel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2007
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1393-8 (ISBN)

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Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

In farming systems across Canada, effective risk management isnecessary to deal with drought, flooding, and extreme weather, and toadapt to altered climate and weather conditions. Unfortunately, climatechange risks and opportunities are not always well understood amongresearchers and policy makers in the Canadian agri-food sector. Thisbook addresses that gap by providing a wide-ranging synopsis ofwhat climate change means for Canadian agriculture, exploring differentapproaches to the topic, and presenting examples of current research.It covers all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodityproduction and farming systems. This comprehensive survey synthesizestwenty years of research on climate change and Canadianagriculture.

Ellen Wall is a research scientist in environmentalsciences; Barry Smit is a professor of geography andCanada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change; andJohanna Wandel is a postdoctoral research associatewith the Department of Geography – all at the University ofGuelph. The authors/editors are also members of the Advisory Committeefor C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and AdaptationResearch Network for Agriculture).

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate ChangeAdaptation

1 Introduction / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel

2 Impact-Based Approach / Michael Brklacich, Barry Smit, Ellen Wall,and Johanna Wandel

3 Context-Based Approach / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and JohannaWandel

4 Process-Based Approach / Johanna Wandel, Ellen Wall, and BarrySmit

Part 2: Impact-Based Studies

5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in EasternCanada / Samuel Gameda, Andrew Bootsma, and Daniel McKenney

6 Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairie Region /David Sauchyn

7 Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using ClimateChange Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes / DeniseNeilsen, Stewart Cohen, Scott Smith, Grace Frank, Walter Koch, YounesAlila, Wendy Merritt, Mark Barton, and Bill Taylor

Part 3: Context-Based Studies

8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: ConceptualizingMultiple Risks in

Primary Agriculture / Ben Bradshaw

9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in theCanadian Prairies / Henry David Venema

10 Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South SaskatchewanRiver Basin / Harry P. Diaz and David A. Gauthier

11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability inQuébec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability andChange / Christopher Bryant, Bhawan Singh, and Pierre André

Part 4: Process-Based Studies

12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to ClimateVariability and

Change / Suzanne Belliveau, Ben Bradshaw, and Barry Smit

13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in SouthwesternOntario Farming Systems / Susanna Reid, Suzanne Belliveau, Barry Smit,and Wayne Caldwell

14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an AgriculturalAdaptation to Climatic

Extremes in the Canadian Prairies / R. Cynthia Neudoerffer and DavidWaltner-Toews

15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-RelatedRural Population

Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years / Robert A. McLeman

Part 5: Conclusions

16 Policy Implications: Panellists’ Comments / Ellen Wall,Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel

17 Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for CanadianAgriculture /

Ellen Wall and Barry Smit

References

Contributors

Index

Reihe/Serie	Sustainability and the Environment
Zusatzinfo	42 charts, 9 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-7748-1393-8 / 0774813938
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-1393-8 / 9780774813938
Zustand	Neuware