The impact of climate change on China's agriculture

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-337

  Wang, Jinxia ^a   Mendelsohn, Robert ^b   Dinar, Ariel ^c   Huang, Jikun ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^d   Zhang, Lijuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; China; Climate change; Impacts; Ricardian model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER FLOW;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 65249085660     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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