Farming in a Changing Climate

Ellen Wall is a research scientist in environmentalsciences; Barry Smit is a professor of geography andCanada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change; andJohanna Wandel is a postdoctoral research associatewith the Department of Geography – all at the University ofGuelph. The authors/editors are also members of the Advisory Committeefor C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and AdaptationResearch Network for Agriculture).

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Preface


Acknowledgments


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Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate ChangeAdaptation


1 Introduction / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel


2 Impact-Based Approach / Michael Brklacich, Barry Smit, Ellen Wall,and Johanna Wandel


3 Context-Based Approach / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and JohannaWandel


4 Process-Based Approach / Johanna Wandel, Ellen Wall, and BarrySmit


Part 2: Impact-Based Studies


5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in EasternCanada / Samuel Gameda, Andrew Bootsma, and Daniel McKenney


6 Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairie Region /David Sauchyn


7 Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using ClimateChange Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes / DeniseNeilsen, Stewart Cohen, Scott Smith, Grace Frank, Walter Koch, YounesAlila, Wendy Merritt, Mark Barton, and Bill Taylor


Part 3: Context-Based Studies


8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: ConceptualizingMultiple Risks in

Primary Agriculture / Ben Bradshaw


9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in theCanadian Prairies / Henry David Venema


10 Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South SaskatchewanRiver Basin / Harry P. Diaz and David A. Gauthier


11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability inQuébec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability andChange / Christopher Bryant, Bhawan Singh, and Pierre André


Part 4: Process-Based Studies


12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to ClimateVariability and

Change / Suzanne Belliveau, Ben Bradshaw, and Barry Smit


13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in SouthwesternOntario Farming Systems / Susanna Reid, Suzanne Belliveau, Barry Smit,and Wayne Caldwell


14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an AgriculturalAdaptation to Climatic

Extremes in the Canadian Prairies / R. Cynthia Neudoerffer and DavidWaltner-Toews


15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-RelatedRural Population

Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years / Robert A. McLeman


Part 5: Conclusions


16 Policy Implications: Panellists’ Comments / Ellen Wall,Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel


17 Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for CanadianAgriculture /

Ellen Wall and Barry Smit


References


Contributors


Index