Report

Indicators of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change for Agriculture in the Prairie Region of Canada: An Analysis based on Statistics Canada's Census of Agriculture

By Henry David Venema, Richard Grosshans, Darren A. Swanson, Jim Hiley, Henry David Venema on August 20, 2009

This working paper documents a collaborative IISD/AAFC-PFRA effort to develop an index of adaptive capacity at the Census Division level for the Prairie Agricultural region. IISD used this index to select case study locations for farm-level analysis of adaptation responses to climate stress and shock.

Participating experts

Richard Grosshans

Lead II, Bioremediation

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Publisher: IISD

Copyright: IISD, 2009

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