Climate Smart Agriculture - Building Resilience to Climate Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license. The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA, the text embraces a mixture of conceptual analyses, including theory, empirical and policy analysis, and case studies, to look at adaptation and resilience through three possible avenues: ex-ante reduction of vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity, and ex-post risk coping. The book is divided into three sections. The first section provides conceptual framing, giving an overview of the CSA concept and grounding it in core economic principles. The second section is devoted to a set of case studies illustrating the economic basis of CSA in terms of reducing vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity and ex-post risk coping. The final section addresses policy issues related to climate change. Providing information on this new and important field in an approachable way, this book helps make sense of CSA and fills intellectual and policy gaps by defining the concept and placing it within an economic decision-making framework. This book will be of interest to agricultural, environmental, and natural resource economists, development economists, and scholars of development studies, climate change, and agriculture. It will also appeal to policy-makers, development practitioners, and members of governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in agriculture, food security and climate change.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Natural Resource Management and Policy, 52
Release date:	October 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Leslie Lipper • Nancy McCarthy • David Zilberman • Solomon Asfaw • Giacomo Branca
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	630
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-61193-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Promotions
LSN:	3-319-61193-3
Barcode:	9783319611938

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