Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture

by Daniel Hillel, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Daniel Hillel

If the predictions of many atmospheric scientists on global warming are realized, the mean change in temperature of the earth's surface will rise by several degrees--a warming that is likely to trigger a series of changes affecting the hydrologic regimes of entire regions. These predictions have serious implications for the future of food production and global food security, which depend on the predictability of the climate and on the ability of farmers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195088891
• ISBN13: 9780195088892
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"