Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: The importance of additional climatic variables other than temperature and precipitation

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 83, Issue , 2017, Pages 8-31

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Zhang, Junjie ^b   Chen, Minpeng ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b DUKE KUNSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture; China; Climate change; Humidity; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CROPS; WIND;

CHINA; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COUNTY LEVEL; CROP GROWTH; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; SUNSHINE DURATION; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; MAIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RICE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WHEAT; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85007001912     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2016.12.001     Document Type: Article

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