Global warming and agriculture : impact estimates by country / William R. Cline.
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Washington, DC :
Center for Global Development : Peterson Institute for International Economics,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.