Climate change and the adequacy of food and timber in the 21st century
- Department of Geography and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Edited by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, and approved November 7, 2007 (received for review October 31, 2007)
One of the great challenges of the 21st century will be to increase the global food and timber supply to accommodate a world growing to 10 billion or more people while undergoing climate change. Success in meeting this challenge will require a steady stream of technical and institutional innovations to increase food and timber production while simultaneously adapting to changing climatic conditions.
Every five years since 1990, under the auspices of the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assembles teams of highly respected researchers from an international pool of scientists to undertake …
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