Agriculture The Potential Consequences Of Climate Variability And Change For The United States
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Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309471699 |
Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the risks to society and the impacts of continued climate change can be lessened. The National Climate Assessment, coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is a mandated report intended to inform response decisions. Required to be developed every four years, these reports provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of climate change impacts available for the United States, making them a unique and important climate change document. The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed here addresses a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to ecosystems and natural resources. This report evaluates the draft NCA4 to determine if it meets the requirements of the federal mandate, whether it provides accurate information grounded in the scientific literature, and whether it effectively communicates climate science, impacts, and responses for general audiences including the public, decision makers, and other stakeholders.
Author | : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II. |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521634557 |
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Author | : Jane Kabubo-Mariara |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate, hydrological, soil, and household level data for a sample of 816 households, and uses a seasonal Ricardian model. Estimated marginal impacts of climate variables suggest that global warming is harmful for agricultural productivity and that changes in temperature are much more important than changes in precipitation. This result is confirmed by the predicted impact of various climate change scenarios on agriculture. The results further confirm that the temperature component of global warming is much more important than precipitation. The authors analyze farmers' perceptions of climate variations and their adaptation to these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short-term climate change, that most of them have noticed an increase in temperatures, and that some have taken adaptive measures.
Author | : U.S. Global Change Research Program |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2009-08-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521144078 |
Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Climatic changes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan A Crate |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2016-06-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1315434768 |
Comprehensively assessing anthropology's engagement with climate change, this volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Linking sophisticated knowledge to effective actions, 'Anthropology and Climate Change' is essential for students and scholars in anthropology and environmental studies.
Author | : Wael Al-Delaimy |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2020-05-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3030311252 |
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate change has been established through extensive published evidence and reports. However, the connections between climate change, the health of the planet and the impact on human health have not received the same level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public health impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of interest. This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that changes in climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods, storms, heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more than 600,000 deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people in the last 20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of climate change was limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and outcomes and focused less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted collaborations between physical scientists, public health researchers and policy makers. Further, there was little attention paid to faith-based and ethical approaches to the problem. The solutions and actions we explore in this book engage diverse sectors of civil society, faith leadership, and political leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and policy with a special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The book highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the public, faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines including the humanities, and policy makers.
Author | : Mark Hobart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2002-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113489631X |
Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focussing on the ways in which agency in development is attributed to experts, thereby turning previously active participants into passive subjects or ignorant objects, the contributors claim that the hidden agenda to the aims of educating and improving the lives of those in the undeveloped world falls little short of perpetuating ignorance.
Author | : John M. Reilly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002-06-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521016285 |
Author | : R. Selvaraju |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
ctives of the study are: (i) to review current knowledge on vulnerability, past trends in climate, and impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture sector, and (ii) to explore technical and policy alternatives in order to cope with and adapt to impacts of climate variability and change more effectively. The study identified what the potential impacts are, considered what interventions are appropriate, and if and where they should occur. The scope of the study focused on broader policy directions and investment priorities in relation to climate change adaptation. The first two chapters of this book present overall background on the agriculture sector and vulnerability context. Chapter 2 specifically presents vulnerability of agro-ecosystems and food production systems in both temporal and special dimensions. Chapter 3 elaborates on the nature of climate variability and expected future changes in climate. The past trends in climate were described based on observation, analysi