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Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change: If Adaptation is the Answer, What is the Question?

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Kandlikar, M., Risbey, J. Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change: If Adaptation is the Answer, What is the Question?. Climatic Change 45, 529–539 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005546716266

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