Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Abbreviations x
5. Preface xii
6. Acknowledgments xiv
7. Research Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation
8. Introduction 3
9. Impact-Based Approach 13
10. Context-Based Approach 32
11. Process-Based Approach 42
12. Impact-Based Studies
13. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Eastern Canada 53
14. Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairies 67
15. Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using Climate Change Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes 81
16. Context-Based Studies
17. Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing Multiple Risks in Primary Agriculture 103
18. Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in the Canadian Prairies 115
19. Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South Saskatchewan River Basin 127
20. The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability in Québec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change 142
21. Process-Based Studies
22. Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change 157
23. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in Southwestern Ontario Farming Systems 173
24. Community-Based Watershed Management as an Agricultural Adaptation to Climatic Extremes in the Canadian Prairies 187
25. Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-Related Rural Population Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years 200
26. Conclusions
27. Policy Implications: Panellists’ Comments 219
28. Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for Canadian Agriculture 233
29. References 241
30. Contributors 262
31. Index 264