Co-Benefits and Tradeoffs from Combined Mitigation and Adaptation in Agriculture

Session ID#: 120744

Session Description:
Research at the nexus of climate mitigation and climate adaptation in agriculture remains challenging owing to both data and modeling limitations as well as the multi-scale analyses and stakeholder engagement required. Nevertheless, as climate change intensifies, there is an urgent need to close these research gaps and rigorously assess how simultaneously implementing agricultural adaptation and mitigation interventions could provide valuable co-benefits and/or create trade-offs for food security, environmental conservation, and other important societal challenges. This session invites research papers on agricultural mitigation and adaptation co-benefits and trade-offs, particularly those that introduce data and model tools and approaches needed for evaluation; feature regional projects and perspectives; and provide empirical bases to assess multiple dimensions of societal impacts (e.g., food security, labor and gender, biodiversity, etc.). We encourage submissions representing a variety of disciplines, and in particular cross-disciplinary perspectives on these issues.
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]


Primary Convener:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Roberto O Valdivia, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Erik Mencos, Columbia University of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States