Floor Brouwer

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015: A New Perspective on Future Land Use Patterns - Environment & Policy Floor Brouwer 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Based on pre-pub. info. only. Due: 04/06.; Bibl. ref. & index. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction; Floor Brouwer and Bruce A. McCarl. Part 1: Setting the scene. 2. Agriculture, climate and future land use patterns: potential for a simulation-based exploration; Peter H. Verburg and Jan Peter Lesschen. 3. Technology development and climate change as drivers of future agricultural land use; Frank Ewert, Mark Rounsevell, Isabelle Reginster, Marc Metzger and Rik Leemans. 4. Agricultural transitions at dryland and tropical forest margins: actors, scales and trade-offs; Helmut Geist, Eric Lambin, Cheryl Palm and Thomas Tomich. Part 2: Cases on future land use. 5. World livestock and crop production systems, land use and environment between 1970 and 2030; Lex Bouwman, Klaas van der Hoek, Gerard van Drecht and Bas Eickhout. 6. Agricultural change and limits to deforestation in Central America; David Carr, Alisson Barbieri, William Pan and Heide Iranavi. 7. Rising food demand, climate change and the use of land and water; Hermann Lotze-Campen, Christoph Muller, Alberte Bondeau, Pascalle Smith and Wolfgang Lucht. 8. Population and economic growth as drivers of future land use in India; Neeraj Sharma. Part 3: Agricultural mitigation responses. 9. Bottom-up methodologies for assessing technical and economic bioenergy production potential; Edward M. W. Smeets, Jinke van Dam, Andre P. C. Faaij and Iris M. Lewandowski. 10. Changes in consumption patterns: options and impacts of a transition in protein foods; Harry Aiking, Xueqin Zhu, Ekko van Ierland, Frank Willemsen, Xinyou Yin and Jan Vos. 11. Participatory approaches for a transition in agriculture: the case of the Netherlands; Jan Ros, Matthijs Hisschemoller, Floor Brouwer and Gert-Jan van den Born.12. Options and tradeoffs: reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food production systems; Sanderine Nonhebel. 13. U. S. agriculture and forestry greenhouse gas emission mitigation over time; Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. McCarl, Dhazn Gillig and Brian C. Murray. 14. Biosphere greenhouse gas management: transformative change in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture; Marie Boehm, Henry Janzen, Bob MacGregor and Murray Fulton. Part 4: Policy and social responses. 15. Policy efforts to achieve sustainable agriculture: an OECD perspective; Wilfrid Legg. 16. Institutional and organizational change: biosphere greenhouse gas management in Canadian northern Great Plains agriculture; Murray Fulton, Patricia L. Farnese, Bob MacGregor, Marie Boehm and Alfons Weersink. 17. Performance standards and the farmer: design and application in greenhouse gas mitigation; Patricia L. Farnese. Index."

Contributor Bio:  Brouwer, Floor Floor Brouwer is Head of the Research Unit on Management of Natural Resourcesis Research Scholar at LEI (Agricultural Economics Institute), Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands.