Global Warming and Agriculture – Impact Estimates by Country - Softcover

Cline, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881324035 ISBN 13: 9780881324037

Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics, 2007

Synopsis

How will global warming affect developing countries, which rely heavily on agriculture as a source of economic growth? William Cline asserts that developing countries have more at risk, such as their production capacity, than industrial countries as global warming worsens. Using general circulation models, Cline boldly examines 2071-2100 to forecast the effects of global warming and its economic impact into the next decade. This detailed study: outlines existing studies on climate change; Cline finds the Stern Report for the UK government's estimates most reliable; estimates projected changes in temperature, precipitation, and agricultural capacity; and concludes with policy recommendations. Cline finds that agricultural production in developing countries may fall an average of 16 percent, and if global warming progresses at its current rate, India's agricultural capacity could fall as much as 40 percent. Thus, policymakers should address this phenomenon now before the world's developing countries are adversely and irreversibly affected. The author's previous work in this area, ""The Economics of Global Warming"", was selected by ""Choice"" for its 1993 ""Outstanding Academic Books"" list and was the winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout prize for the best book on international environmental affairs, awarded by the International Studies Association.

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Bill Cline has been a pioneer in the study of the economic effects of global warming. His latest book on the effects on agriculture is of great importance and has provided another important landmark in the study of this crucial issue.--Sir Nicholas Stern, I.G. Patel Chair, London School of Economics and Political Science

For too long environmentalists and earth scientists in the rich world have had an unforntunate near-monopoly on serious concern about climate change and its mitigation.This book will help change that.--James Gustave Speth, dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

About the Author

William R. Cline is a senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. During 1996-2001 while on leave from the Institute, Dr. Cline was deputy managing director and chief economist of the Institute of International Finance. He was senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1973-81), deputy director for Development and Trade Research at the US Treasury (1971-73), Ford Foundation visiting professor in Brazil (1970-71), and assistant professor at Princeton University (1967-70). He is the author of 21 books, including The United States as a Debtor Nation (2005), Trade Policy and Global Poverty (2004), Trade and Income Distribution (1997), Predicting External Imbalances for the United States and Japan (1995), International Debt Reexamined (1995), The Economics of Global Warming (1992), and The Future of World Trade in Textiles and Apparel (2nd ed., 1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0881324035
• ISBN 13: 9780881324037
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250