Climate Change and Agriculture: An Economic Analysis of Global Impacts, Adaptation and Distributional Effects

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Role of Climate in Agricultural Production 3. Literature Review of Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture 4. The Ricardian Method 5. Modeling Adaptation to Climate Change 6. Structural Ricardian Models 7. Ricardian Analyses of Aggregate Data 8. Ricardian Models of Individual Farms 9. Adaptation 10. Structural Ricardian Models 11. Summary of Results 12. Policy Implications and Future Research Needs Index