Extreme Events and Climate Change (eBook)

Dr. Federico Castillo, Specialist Researcher, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Dr. Michael Wehner, Senior Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. Dr. Dáithí A. Stone, Climate Scientist, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership, Oxford, UK.

Contributors vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiv

1 Synthesizing Observed Impacts of Extreme Weather Events Across Systems 1
Dáithí A. Stone

2 The Impact of Heat Waves on Agricultural Labor Productivity and Output 11
Federico Castillo, Armando Sánchez Vargas, J. K. Gilless, and Michael Wehner

3 Weather Extremes That Affect Various Agricultural Commodities 21
Richard Grotjahn

4 Economics of the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture 49
Xuemei Lu, Jesse Buchsbaum, and David Zilberman

5 Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World: Modeling the Impacts of Regional Crop Failures on Global Land Use 67
John P. Casellas Connors, Anthony Janetos, and Yasmin Romitti

6 Perceptions of Extreme Weather Events and Adaptation Decisions: A Case Study of Maize and Bean Farmers in Guatemala and Honduras 89
Milagro Saborío-Rodríguez, Francisco Alpízar, Leyla Aguilar-Solano, M. Ruth Martínez-Rodríguez, Raffaele Vignola, Bárbara Viguera, and Celia A. Harvey

7 Simulation Model Based on Agents for Land Use Change and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Land Management Policies 107
Armando Sánchez Vargas, D. Martínez Ventura, C. Gay García, A. L. Herrera Merino, and Bernardo Olvera

8 Climate Extremes, Political Participation, and Migration Intentions of Farmers: A Case Study in Western China 115
Yan Tan and Xuchun Liu

9 Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Internal Migration in Rural Guatemala 135
Deicy Lozano Sivisaca, Juan Robalino, Adriana Chacón Cascante, Pablo Imbach, and Catalina Sandoval

10 Extreme Heat Exposure and Occupational Health in a Changing Climate 147
Jennifer Vanos, Sally Moyce, Bruno Lemke, and Tord Kjellstrom

11 Tropical Cyclone Impacts 167
Jennifer M. Collins and Charles H. Paxton

12 On the Relationship Between Heat Waves and Extreme Precipitation in a Warming Climate 183
Ajay Raghavendra and Shawn M. Milrad

13 Evaluating Economic Output at Risk to Climate Change: A Sectoral Comparison of Economic Sensitivity to Weather 205
Colin Shaw, Samuel G. Evans, and Joshua Turner

Index 219