Agriculture and climate beyond 2015 a new perspective on future land use patterns /

• Other Authors: Brouwer, Floor., McCarl, Bruce A.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer, c2006.
• Series: Environment & policy ; v. 46.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Environmental aspects.; Agriculture > Forecasting.; NATURE > Natural Resources.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.; Climate; Electronic books.
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Explores key interactions between changes in agriculture, patterns of land use and efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions from agriculture. This volume is based on inter-disciplinary science and policy interactions, exploring the way land use may aid in addressing or be affected by the onset of clim...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Agriculture, climate and future land use patterns: potential for a simulation-based exploration; Technology development and climate change as drivers of future agricultural land use; Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs; World livestock and crop production systems, land use and environment between 1970 and 2030; Agricultural change and limits to deforestation in Central America; Rising food demand, climate change and the use of land and water; Population and economic growth as drivers of future land use in India.