Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture

Edited by Ariel Dinar and Robert O. Mendelsohn

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This timely Handbook examines the effects of climate change on the agriculture industry. It also presents contemporary scholarship associated with recent explorations in climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in diverse agricultural contexts across the globe. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Keywords: Agriculture; Climate Change; Water; Adaptation; Mitigation; Welfare; Ricardian Economics; Irrigation Technologies; Agricultural Extension; Political Lobbying (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035344963
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture

Ariel Dinar and Robert Mendelsohn

Ch 2 Climate change and agriculture: a global meta-analysis of the Ricardian literature

Allan Beltran, Saúl Basurto Hernández, Robert Mendelsohn and Luis Miguel Galindo

Ch 3 European climate change impacts on agriculture: an updated Ricardian analysis

Charlotte Fabri and Steven Van Passel

Ch 4 Assessing the sensitivity of climate change impacts in agriculture to the climate–economy functional form

Joey Blumberg

Ch 5 Estimating the impact of droughts and floods on African farmers

Shun Chonabayashi and Theepakorn Jithitikulchai

Ch 6 Impacts of and seasonal adaptation to climate change: structural Ricardian evidence from smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

Babatunde Abidoye, Agha Ali Akram, Sudha Kannan, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya and Kehinde O. Omotoso

Ch 7 The impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity in OECD countries

Mehrshad Radmehr and Richard Arhinful

Ch 8 Agricultural adaptation to climate change: the imperative, the reaction, and the policy challenges

Lunyu C. Zhao, Xinran R. Wang, Chengcheng J. Fei and Bruce A. McCarl

Ch 9 The economics of large-scale climate adaptation in Brazilian agriculture

Guilherme DePaula, Aryeverton Fortes de Oliveira, Vania Rosa Pereira, Milena Oliveira and Arthur Welle

Ch 10 Drought-tolerant crops as a drought adaptation tool: productivity, input complementarity, and risk effects

Jonathan McFadden, Samuel Bailey, Daniel Bonin, Laura Paul and Jonathan Malacarne

Ch 11 Climate variability and risk management in maize production: adoption strategies and implications for climate change in Southwestern Cameroon

Eric Bomdzele, Ernest L. Molua, Ajapnwa Akamin, Ticha Bizel-Bi Mafor, Mary E. Ngaiwi and Joe E. Assoua

Ch 12 Climate change impacts and adaptation in the agricultural sector of the Colorado River Basin: a hydro-economic analysis

Daniel Crespo, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel and Nicholas Halberg

Ch 13 Effects of climate, land, and farm characteristics on irrigation adoption, water use, and conservation practices in the Southeastern US

Harikrishnan Santhosh and Jeffrey D. Mullen

Ch 14 Extreme soil moisture risk and subsurface drainage adoption: a structural Ricardian analysis

Steven Wallander, Daniel Szmurlo and Benjamin M. Gramig

Ch 15 Effects of climate change on farmers’ adaptive investment in irrigation facilities: empirical evidence from national representative surveys in China

Jinxia Wang, Wei Chao, Kaixing Huang, Huang Chen and Yimeng Li

Ch 16 Markets in agriculture-based carbon offsets: current status and scaling challenges

Rohit Jindal

Ch 17 How to address barriers to the adoption of agricultural carbon sequestration

Michael A. Meneses, Miguel I. Gómez, David R. Just, Ravi Kanbur, David R. Lee and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

Ch 18 The growing challenges of climate change in Spanish agriculture: impacts, mitigation, and adaptation

José Albiac and Encarna Esteban

Ch 19 Perception and willingness to support planned mitigation climate policies: the African farmers’ perspective

Perez L. Kemeni Kambiet, Ernest L. Molua, Victor Ongoma, Francis E. Ndip and Hachim El Ayoubi

Ch 20 Could agricultural extension services help farmers adapt to climate change? Evidence from smallholder farmers in Kenya, Mozambique, and Nigeria

Agha Ali Akram, Esteban J. Quiñones, Abbie Turiansky and Robert Mendelsohn

Ch 21 Legislative responsiveness to climate change: politically driven adaptation in California's agricultural sector

Paige Pellaton, Jonathan P. Colner, Alex Cohen, Cory Struthers, Siddharth Kishore, Scott A. MacKenzie, Matthew S. Shugart, Mehdi Nemati and Ariel Dinar

Ch 22 Governance structure, adaptation options, and climate resilience of the agricultural and water sectors of Morocco: pathway analysis in the context of the Oum Er Rbia Basin

Rathinasamy Maria Saleth, Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, Upali Ananda Amarasinghe, Giriraj Amarnath and Youssef Brouziyne

Ch 23 Conclusions of the Handbook on Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, and Adaptation in Agriculture, and lessons learned

Robert Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar

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