Economics issues in global climate change: Agriculture forestry and natural resources
- eds.
This book is a collection of 26 papers from a 1990 conference concerning the interface between greenhouse warming and agriculture and forestry. Areas of particular emphasis include methane's importance as a greenhouse gas and agricultural production of methane; agriculture's importance as a response to climatic change; forestry as a potentially powerful abatement method, because forests sequester carbon as part of their natural growth. The book is divided into three parts. First, the implications of examining the full set of greenhouse gases versus just looking at carbon dioxide are discussed. Second, the role of agriculture and forestry in producing greenhouse gases is covered. Third, a series of articles tackles the difficult task of measuring the damages to agriculture that would result if climates do change.
- OSTI ID:
- 6077926
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by Robert Mendelsohn, Yale Univ., in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 75, No. 1(Feb 1993)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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