Exploring Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture : The Potential of Cross-Sectional Analysis

• Tác giả: Robert Mendelsohn
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.16 Production efficiency
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 322690
• Chủ đề: 1. ABATEMENT; 2. ACCESS TO IRRIGATION; 3. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; 4. AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; 5. AGRICULTURAL SERVICES

Tóm tắt

Scientists are confident of a link between greenhouse gas emissions, the increasing concentration of those gases in the atmosphere, and climate change. However, the final impacts from climate change are difficult to estimate, since we have no direct experience with new climates. Past climate change has been small and slow, making the impacts hard to discern. Further, technological changes have obscured signals from historic climate changes. Despite these difficulties, the impact literature has made many strides toward understanding and quantifying climatic impacts.