Product Description: This volume employs an improved Integrated Assessment methodology to analyze the impact of several climate change scenarios on agriculture, water resources, unmanaged ecosystems, irrigation, and land use in the United States, along with their economic implications...read more

Product Description: This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water. It identifies what can be done currently with impact assessments and suggests how to undertake such assessments...read more

Product Description: General circulation models state that the central United States (and other mid-latitude continental regions) will become warmer and drier as the result of greenhouse warming. On this premise the dustbowl period of the 1930s was selected as an analogue of climate change and its weather records imposed on the Missouri--Iowa--Kansas region to assess how current agriculture, forestry, water resources and energy and the entire regional economy would be affected...read more

Product Description: The North American Great Plains is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat, damaging winds, soil erosion and declining ground water resources. Biomass production and processing on the Plains would partially restore a perennial vegetative cover and create employment opportunities...read more

Product Description: From the St. Michaels Workshop, these proceedings contain a timely discussion on ethical, environmental, societal, and economic consequences of the use of biotechnology generally and of greenhouse gas mitigation specifically. Greenhouse gas emissions warm the lower layers of the atmosphere and may, consequently, alter the climate of the earth...read more

Product Description: Soil carbon sequestration can play a strategic role in controlling the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and thereby help mitigate climatic change. There are scientific opportunities to increase the capacity of soils to store carbon and remove it from circulation for longer periods of time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Proceedings of the St. Michaels Workshop, December 1998. The book deals with four issues that must be addressed before soil carbon sequestration programs can be implemented on a large scale: new science, monitoring and verification, the soil carbon sequestration/desertification linkage, and policy and implementation issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Originally published in 1989, Greenhouse Warming combines papers presented at a workshop held in 1987 to discuss climate change. This study identifies ways that climate impacts upon agriculture, forestry and water resources in order to advise on safeguarding against drought, flood and extreme cold as well as what policies can be implemented to adapt to the probable physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change...read more

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Product Description: This book reflects research on impacts and strategies of droughts in the Great Plains, by identifying and prioritizing research needs to provide information in preparation of a regional strategy.

Product Description: This book reflects research on impacts and strategies of droughts in the Great Plains, by identifying and prioritizing research needs to provide information in preparation of a regional strategy.