Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA

by Rosenberg, Norman J.; Edmonds, James A.

• ISBN13: 9781402032554
• ISBN10: 1402032552
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

In this volume, an improved Integrated Assessment methodology is used to analyze 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 a??CO 2 -fertilization effecta??, impacts on international trade in agricultural commodities, and their consequences for producers and consumers. Reprinted from Climatic Change, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2005

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	v
NORMAN J. ROSENBERG and JAMES A. EDMONDS
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment: From Mink to the 'Lower 48'.
An Introductory Editorial	1	(6)
STEVEN J. SMITH, ALLISON M. THOMSON, NORMAN J. ROSENBERG, R. CESAR IZAURRALDE, ROBERT A. BROWN and TOM M.L. WIGLEY
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 1. Scenarios and Context	7	(20)
ALLISON M. THOMSON, NORMAN J. ROSENBERG, R. CESAR IZAURRALDE and ROBERT A. BROWN
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 2. Models and Validation	27	(16)
ALLISON M. THOMSON, ROBERT A. BROWN, NORMAN J. ROSENBERG, R. CESAR IZAURRALDE and VEREL BENSON
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 3. Dryland Production of Grain and Forage Crops	43	(24)
ALLISON M. THOMSON, ROBERT A. BROWN, NORMAN J. ROSENBERG, RAGHAVAN SRINIVASAN and R. CESAR IZAURRALDE
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 4. Water Resources	67	(22)
ALLISON M. THOMSON, NORMAN J. ROSENBERG, R. CESAR IZAURRALDE and ROBERT A. BROWN
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 5. Irrigated Agriculture and National Grain Crop Production	89	(18)
R. CÉSAR IZAURRALDE, ALLISON M. THOMSON, NORMAN J. ROSENBERG and ROBERT A. BROWN
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 6. Distribution and Productivity of Unmanaged Ecosystems	107	(20)
RONALD D. SANDS and JAMES A. EDMONDS
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment.
Part 7. Economic Analysis of Field Crops and Land Use with Climate Change	127
JAMES A. EDMONDS and NORMAN J. ROSENBERG
Climate Change Impacts for the Conterminous USA: An Integrated Assessment Summary	151