Book Review: Farming in a Changing Climate: Agricultural Adaptation in Canada Edited by Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel

Authors

Debra Davidson, University of Alberta

Date of this Version

2008

Comments

Published in Great Plains Research, 18:2 (Fall 2008) p. 238. Copyright © 2008 by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abstract

This timely collection will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and agriculturalists throughout North America and beyond. It offers both a comprehensive collection of recent research on the vulnerability of Canadian farming systems to climate change and a thorough and articulate presentation of the breadth of concepts and methods currently employed in climate change vulnerability assessments. The volume is information-dense in places, but necessarily so, given its broad thesis. Despite the breadth of content, the editors provide a balanced and coherent message, with individual chapters presenting varied but complementary contributions, organized in terms of three methodological approaches: impact based, context based, and process based.