Farming in a changing climate : agricultural adaptation in Canada

Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation 1 Introduction / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel 2 Impact-Based Approach / Michael Brklacich, Barry Smit, Ellen Wall, and Johanna Wandel 3 Context-Based Approach / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel 4 Process-Based Approach / Johanna Wandel, Ellen Wall, and Barry Smit Part 2: Impact-Based Studies 5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Eastern Canada / Samuel Gameda, Andrew Bootsma, and Daniel McKenney 6 Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairie Region / David Sauchyn 7 Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using Climate Change Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes / Denise Neilsen, Stewart Cohen, Scott Smith, Grace Frank, Walter Koch, Younes Alila, Wendy Merritt, Mark Barton, and Bill Taylor Part 3: Context-Based Studies 8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing Multiple Risks in Primary Agriculture / Ben Bradshaw 9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in the Canadian Prairies / Henry David Venema 10 Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South Saskatchewan River Basin / Harry P. Diaz and David A. Gauthier 11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability in Quebec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change / Christopher Bryant, Bhawan Singh, and Pierre Andre Part 4: Process-Based Studies 12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change / Suzanne Belliveau, Ben Bradshaw, and Barry Smit 13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in Southwestern Ontario Farming Systems / Susanna Reid, Suzanne Belliveau, Barry Smit, and Wayne Caldwell 14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an Agricultural Adaptation to Climatic Extremes in the Canadian Prairies / R. Cynthia Neudoerffer and David Waltner-Toews 15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-Related Rural Population Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years / Robert A. McLeman Part 5: Conclusions 16 Policy Implications: Panellists' Comments / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel 17 Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for Canadian Agriculture / Ellen Wall and Barry Smit References Contributors Index