Research Handbook on Climate Change and Agricultural Law

Edited by Mary Jane Angelo, Professor of Law and Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Program, University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, US and Anél du Plessis, Law Faculty Trust Chair, Department of Mercantile Law, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Contents:

1. Untangling the climate-food web: achieving food security and agricultural climate-resilience
Mary Jane Angelo

2. Climate change and agriculture under the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change and related documents
Jonathan Verschuuren

3. Resilience and transformation of agro-ecosystems in a changing climate
Lance H. Gunderson

4. Climate change, complexity, agriculture and challenged governance
Paul Martin

5. Climate change and water law in agriculture
Robert W. Adler

6. Climate change and invasive species law in agriculture: a southern hemisphere view of key legal and institutional issues in Australia
Elodie Le Gal

7. Genetically modified food crops in an era of climate change: an answer in search of a problem
Rebecca M. Bratspies

8. Adapting agriculture through land use controls
Keith H. Hirokawa

9. Much ado about methane: intensive animal agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions
Michelle Nowlin and Emily Spiegel

10. Adaptation of agricultural trade and investment rules to climate change
Christian Häberli

11. Agriculture and payments for ecosystem services in the era of climate change
J.B. Ruhl

12. Climate change and agrofuels: Brazilian ethanol and the Cerrado biome
Sérgio Sauer, José Paulo Pietrafesa and Pedro Araujo Pietrafesa

13. Adaptation to climate change in smallholder agriculture in Kenya: the role of law
Robert Kibugi

14. Agricultural land use conflict in the context of climate change: an Australian case study
Amanda Kennedy and Amy Cosby

15. Climate change and land grabbing
Akachi Odoemene

Index