Global warming and agriculture : impact estimates by country
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : William R Cline
- ناشر : Washington, DC : Center for Global Development : Peterson Institute for International Economics
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9780881324037
Description
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction and overview -- Main features of the book -- Plan of the book -- 2. Brief survey of existing literature -- 3. Key issues : carbon fertilization, irrigation, and trade -- Carbon fertilization -- The irrigation question -- Trade as moderator? -- 4. Country-level climate projections -- The climate models -- Country-level climate results : present day and for 2070-99 -- 5. Country-level agricultural impact estimates -- Mendelsohn-Schlesinger agricultural response functions -- Mendelsohn-Schlesinger estimates for the United States -- Ricardian estimates for developing countries and Canada -- Sensitivity to climate models -- Rosenzweig et al. crop model results -- Synthesis of preferred estimates -- Comparison to estimates in the model-source studies -- 6. Dynamic considerations -- 7. Conclusion. Appendix A : Standardizing global grids of climate change data -- Appendix B : Mapping grid cells to countries -- Appendix C : Calculating the geographical area of the grid cell -- Appendix D : Definitions of countries, regions, and subzones -- Appendix E : Estimating farm area and agricultural output by country, region, and subzone -- Appendix F : Country-level results with the Mendelsohn-Schlesinger functions -- Appendix G : Ricardian models for India, Africa, and Latin America -- Appendix H : Monthly climate data, 1961-90 and 2070-99 -- Appendix I : Dispersion of climate projections across general circulation models -- References -- Glossary -- Index.
