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Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

A New Perspective on Future Land Use Patterns

  • Interactions between agriculture, climate and land use patterns

  • Major changes in agriculture to control greenhouse gas emissions

  • Future food demand and land use patterns

Part of the book series: Environment & Policy (ENPO, volume 46)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Setting the scene

    1. Introduction

      • Floor Brouwer, Bruce A. McCarl
      Pages 1-4
    2. Technology development and climate change as drivers of future agricultural land use

      • Frank Ewert, Mark Rounsevell, Isabelle Reginster, Marc Metzger, Rik Leemans
      Pages 33-51
    3. Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs

      • Helmut Geist, Eric Lambin, Cheryl Palm, Thomas Tomich
      Pages 53-73
  3. Cases on future land use

    1. World livestock and crop production systems, land use and environment between 1970 and 2030

      • Lex Bouwman, Klaas van der Hoek, Gerard van Drecht, Bas Eickhout
      Pages 75-89
    2. Agricultural change and limits to deforestation in Central America

      • David Carr, Alisson Barbieri, William Pan, Heide Iranavi
      Pages 91-107
    3. Rising food demand, climate change and the use of land and water

      • Hermann Lotze-Campen, Christoph Müller, Alberte Bondeau, Pascalle Smith, Wolfgang Lucht
      Pages 109-129
  4. Agricultural mitigation responses

    1. Bottom-up methodologies for assessing technical and economic bioenergy production potential

      • Edward M.W. Smeets, Jinke van Dam, André P.C. Faaij, Iris M. Lewandowski
      Pages 147-170
    2. Changes in consumption patterns: options and impacts of a transition in protein foods

      • Harry Aiking, Xueqin Zhu, Ekko van Ierland, Frank Willemsen, Xinyou Yin, Jan Vos
      Pages 171-189
    3. Participatory approaches for a transition in agriculture: the case of the Netherlands

      • Jan Ros, Matthijs Hisschemöller, Floor Brouwer, Gert-Jan van den Born
      Pages 191-210
    4. U.S. agriculture and forestry greenhouse gas emission mitigation over time

      • Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. McCarl, Dhazn Gillig, Brian C. Murray
      Pages 231-247
    5. Biosphere greenhouse gas management: transformative change in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture

      • Marie Boehm, Henry Janzen, Bob MacGregor, Murray Fulton
      Pages 249-263
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 305-310

About this book

Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use patterns are foreseen in the next couple of decades in response to shifts in climate, greenhouse gas management initiatives, population growth and other forces. The book explores key interactions between changes in agriculture, patterns of land use and efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions from agriculture. The 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 climate change and alterations in food demand. Future forces shaping land use decisions are examined, and its sensitivity to climate change is highlighted. Patterns of land use and the agricultural role in climate change mitigation are explored. Also, policy and social responses to the new perspectives on future land use patterns are identified. The perspective of the book is beyond the year 2015.

Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • Climate Policy
  • Greenhouse gas mitigation
  • Land use
  • climate change
  • climate change mitigation
  • Climate change management

Editors and Affiliations

  • Head of the Research Unit Management of Natural Resources, LEI, Wageningen UR, LS, The Netherlands

    Floor Brouwer

  • Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

    Bruce A. McCarl

Bibliographic Information

Buying options

eBook USD 149.00
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  • ISBN: 978-1-4020-4368-0
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
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  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)