Evaluating the effects of climate change on US agricultural systems: sensitivity to regional impact and trade expansion scenarios

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 13; no. 6; pp. 64019 - 64028
• Main Authors: Baker, Justin S, Havlík, Petr, Beach, Robert, Leclère, David, Schmid, Erwin, Valin, Hugo, Cole, Jefferson, Creason, Jared, Ohrel, Sara, McFarland, James
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Agricultural industry; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Assessments; Climate change; Climate effects; Competitiveness; Environmental assessment; Environmental impact; Evaluation; Farming systems; Global climate; impacts; International trade; Productivity; Regional analysis; United States > US; agriculture; impacts; climate change

Agriculture is one of the sectors that is expected to be most significantly impacted by climate change. There has been considerable interest in assessing these impacts and many recent studies investigating agricultural impacts for individual countries and regions using an array of models. However, t...