Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part 1: Research Approaches to Climate Change
Adaptation

1 Introduction / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel

2 Impact-Based Approach / Michael Brklacich, Barry Smit, Ellen Wall,
and Johanna Wandel

3 Context-Based Approach / Ellen Wall, Barry Smit, and Johanna
Wandel

4 Process-Based Approach / Johanna Wandel, Ellen Wall, and Barry
Smit

Part 2: Impact-Based Studies

5 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Eastern
Canada / Samuel Gameda, Andrew Bootsma, and Daniel McKenney

6 Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in the Prairie Region /
David Sauchyn

7 Agricultural Water Supply in the Okanagan Basin: Using Climate
Change Scenarios to Inform Dialogue and Planning Processes / Denise
Neilsen, Stewart Cohen, Scott Smith, Grace Frank, Walter Koch, Younes
Alila, Wendy Merritt, Mark Barton, and Bill Taylor

Part 3: Context-Based Studies

8 Climate Change Adaptation in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing
Multiple Risks in
Primary Agriculture / Ben Bradshaw

9 Biophysical and Socio-Economic Stressors for Agriculture in the
Canadian Prairies / Henry David Venema

10 Institutional Capacity for Agriculture in the South Saskatchewan
River Basin / Harry P. Diaz and David A. Gauthier

11 The Perception of Risk to Agriculture and Climatic Variability in
Québec: Implications for Farmer Adaptation to Climatic Variability and
Change / Christopher Bryant, Bhawan Singh, and Pierre André

Part 4: Process-Based Studies

12 Comparing Apples and Grapes: Farm-Level Vulnerability to Climate
Variability and
Change / Suzanne Belliveau, Ben Bradshaw, and Barry Smit

13 Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Risks in Southwestern
Ontario Farming Systems / Susanna Reid, Suzanne Belliveau, Barry Smit,
and Wayne Caldwell

14 Community-Based Watershed Management as an Agricultural
Adaptation to Climatic
Extremes in the Canadian Prairies / R. Cynthia Neudoerffer and David
Waltner-Toews

15 Household Access to Capital and Its Influence on Climate-Related
Rural Population
Change: Lessons from the Dust Bowl Years / Robert A. McLeman

Part 5: Conclusions

16 Policy Implications: Panellists’ Comments / Ellen Wall,
Barry Smit, and Johanna Wandel

17 Climate Change Adaptation Research and Policy for Canadian
Agriculture /
Ellen Wall and Barry Smit

References

Contributors

Index