Climate Change and Natural Resource Scarcity: A Literature Review on Dry Farming

Organic Farming and Climate Change

FOR TRADE INFORMATION SERVICES ID=39115 2007 F-11 ORG International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) Organic Farming and Climate Change. Geneva: ITC, 2007. 27 p. Doc. No. MDS-08-152.E Study focusing on organic agriculture and mitigation and adaptation to predictable and unpredictable impacts of climate change looks at the general contribution of agricultu...

Water access, water scarcity, and climate change.

This article investigates the approaches of the various discourses operating in the water sector and how they address the issues of scarcity and equitable access under projected climate change impacts. Little synergy exists between the different approaches dealing with these issues. Whilst being a sustainable development and water resources management issue, a holistic view of access, scarcity ...

Climate change adaptation and water resource management: A review of the literature

Governing the Resource: Scarcity-Induced Institutional Change

We provide a dynamic model of natural resource management where the optimal institutional structure that governs resource use changes with resource depletion. Copeland and Taylor (2009) analyze how characteristics of a natural resource determine whether its steady-state management regime is open access, communal property, or private property. We extend this and other studies of endogenous insti...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...