Land Use and Climate Change

McCarl, Bruce A. and Attavanich, Witsanu and Musumba, Mark and Mu, Jianhong E. and Aisabokhae, Ruth (2011): Land Use and Climate Change. Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics No. ISBN 978-0-19-976374-0 (July 2014): pp. 226-254.

Abstract

Land use is majorly involved with climate change concerns and this chapter discusses and reviews the interrelationships between the vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation aspects of land use and climate change. We review a number of key studies on climate change issues regarding land productivity, land use and land management (LPLULM), identifying key findings, pointing out research needs, and raising economic/policy questions to ponder. Overall, this chapter goes beyond previous reviews and simultaneously treats the troika of vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation aspects of the issue, which will provide readers with a more comprehensive, multifaceted grasp of the spectrum of current issues regarding LPLULM and climate change.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Land productivity, land use and management, climate change, vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q1 - Agriculture > Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology; Y - Miscellaneous Categories > Y3 - Book Reviews (unclassified) > Y30 - Book Reviews (unclassified)

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