Farming in a Changing Climate

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate ChangeAdaptation

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 JohannaWandel

4 Process-Based Approach / Johanna Wandel, Ellen Wall, and BarrySmit

Part 2: Impact-Based Studies

5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in EasternCanada / 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 ClimateChange Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes / DeniseNeilsen, Stewart Cohen, Scott Smith, Grace Frank, Walter Koch, YounesAlila, Wendy Merritt, Mark Barton, and Bill Taylor

Part 3: Context-Based Studies

8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: ConceptualizingMultiple Risks in
Primary Agriculture / Ben Bradshaw

9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in theCanadian Prairies / Henry David Venema

10 Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South SaskatchewanRiver Basin / Harry P. Diaz and David A. Gauthier

11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability inQuébec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability andChange / Christopher Bryant, Bhawan Singh, and Pierre André

Part 4: Process-Based Studies

12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to ClimateVariability and
Change / Suzanne Belliveau, Ben Bradshaw, and Barry Smit

13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in SouthwesternOntario Farming Systems / Susanna Reid, Suzanne Belliveau, Barry Smit,and Wayne Caldwell

14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an AgriculturalAdaptation to Climatic
Extremes in the Canadian Prairies / R. Cynthia Neudoerffer and DavidWaltner-Toews

15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-RelatedRural 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 CanadianAgriculture /
Ellen Wall and Barry Smit

References

Contributors

Index