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Main Title Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA An Integrated Assessment / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Rosenberg, Norman J.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Edmonds, James A.
Publisher Springer Netherlands,
Year Published 2005
Call Number QC902.8-903.2
ISBN 9781402038761
Subjects Environmental sciences ; Climatic changes
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3876-3
Collation V, 162 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment: From Mink to the 'Lower 48' -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment -- Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment Summary. In this volume, an improved Integrated Assessment methodology is used to analyse climate change impacts on agriculture, water resources, unmanaged ecosystems, irrigation, and land use in the United States and the economic implications of these impacts. This book contains a series of papers documenting the methods, models, analysis and results of this integrated assessment for a wide ranging set of scenarios describing future climate change. Innovations described include the integration of water resource and agricultural modeling and the refinement of an agriculture and land-use economics model to incorporate results from process-level ecosystem models of agriculture, water and natural ecosystem resources. Scenarios selected for this study address a range of uncertainties associated with choice of climate model, presence or absence of a 'CO2-fertilization effect', impacts on international trade in agricultural commodities and their consequences for producers and consumers. This book will be useful to natural and social scientists who use integrated assessment methods. The analyses and conclusions will be of particular interest to policy makers needing to know what the specific impacts of climatic change could be and to those charged with developing strategies for mitigation and adaptation to climate change and climate variability. Reprinted from Climatic Change Vol. 69, No. 1, 2005