Economic Issues in Global Climate Change

Preface -- Overviews -- The Science of Global Change: An Illustrated Overview -- Comprehensive and Market-Based Approaches to Global-Change Policy -- Broader Perspectives -- Sustainability and Intergenerational Environmental Rights: Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis -- Agriculture in a Comprehensive Trace-Gas Strategy -- Climate-Change Damage and the Trace-Gas-Index Issue -- Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Global Change -- Agronomic and Economic Impacts of Gradual Global Warming: A Preliminary Analysis of Midwestern Crop Farming -- A Sensitivity Analysis of the Implications of Climate Change for World Agriculgure -- Government Farm Programs and Climate Change: A First Look -- Modeling Western Irrigated Agriculture and Water Policy: Climate-Change Considerations -- Methodology for Assessing Regional Economic Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change: The MINK Study -- Imbedding Dynamic Responses with Imperfect Information into Static Portraits of the Regional Impact of Climate Change -- Bilogical Emissions and North-South Policies -- Forestry and Global Change -- Global Change and Forest Resources: Modeling Multiple Forest Resources and Human Interactions -- Climate Change and Forestry in the U.S. Midwest -- The Role of Agriculture in Climate Change: A Preliminary Evaluation of Emission-Control Strategies -- Policy and Research Implications of Recent Carbon-Sequestering Analysis -- International Perspectives of Global Change -- The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect and Australian Agriculture -- Global Warming and Mexican Agriculture: Some Preliminary Results -- The Impact of Expected Climate Changes on Crop Yields: Estimates for Europe, the USSR, and North America Based on Paleoanalogue Scenarios -- Perspectives on Potential Agricultural and Resource Effects of Climate Change in Japan -- Review Chapters -- Global Climate Change: Effects on Agriculture -- Evaluating Socioeconomic Assessments of the Effect of Climate Change on Agriculture -- Implications of Global-Change Uncertainties: Agricultural and Natural Resource Policies -- Data and Research Priorities -- Data Centers and Data Needs: Summary of a Panel Discussion -- Setting Priorities for Global-Change Research in Agriculture -- Research Priorities Related to the Economics of Global Warming