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Research Handbook on Climate Change and Agricultural Law

Research Handbook on Climate Change and Agricultural Law

Author: Mary Jane Angelo; Anel Du Plesis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781784710637
Published In: March 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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 Haberli
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 Sergio Sauer, Jose 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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