Full Description
Bringing together scholars from across the globe, this timely book astutely untangles the climate-food web and critically explores the nexus between climate change, agriculture and law, upon which food security and climate resilient development depends.Focusing through the lens of various domestic and international legal systems, this book addresses conceptual notions such as 'systems thinking' and climate change governance, as well as practical matters such as payments for ecosystem services and government subsidies for biofuels. Concerning itself with the vulnerability and resilience of both people and agro-ecosystems, it shows how climate action can yield high returns for agriculture as the primary source of economic activity for poor populations. Far reaching, this book also explores under-researched areas, including the linkages between invasive species law, climate change and agricultural law and the underlying dynamics of agroecosystem vulnerability. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses in existing agricultural laws and policies, it assesses new and innovative tools for addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation in the agricultural sector, before laying out a future research agenda.
Scholars in the fields of climate change law, land use and agricultural law will find this key publication essential reading, as will practitioners desiring a deeper understanding of the agriculture and climate change nexus.
Contributors include: R.W. Adler, M.J. Angelo, R.M. Bratspies, A. Cosby, L.H. Gunderson, C. Häberli, K.H. Hirokawa, A. Kennedy, R. Kibugi, E. Le Gal, P. Martin, M. Nowlin, A. Odoemene, J.P. Pietrafesa , P.A. Pietrafesa, J.B. Ruhl, S. Sauer, E. Spiegel, J. Verschuuren
Contents
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
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