Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture

Edited by Ariel Dinar, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside and Robert Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forestry Policy, School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences and Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, US

This book explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore, any impact on it will have significant economic, social, and political ramifications. Scholars from around the world and from various fields have been brought together to explore this important topic.

‘. . . the Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture is a salient contibution to agricultural and climate change planning.’
– Journal of Regional Science

‘. . . this book is a very useful resource for the lawyer. . . makes a good start by presenting a wide-ranging portfolio of multidisciplinary research that will assist in progressing the task, challenging though it may be.’
– Chris Rodgers, Environmental Liability