Climate change undeniably impacts agriculture and natural resources, enterprises and markets. For informed decision making, there is a need for information on climate change adaptation possibilities and mitigation alternatives. Mathematical programming has been used to address the economic aspects of such questions and allows analysis as climate change moves the environment into previously unobserved conditions. It allows us to model spatial and dynamic features of the issue and analyze heretofore unobserved adaptation and mitigation possibilities. This review provides an overview of and references for modeling techniques, conceptual issues, and major assumptions involved with using mathematical programming as a climate change economic analyzing engine, along with a brief comparison with other methods. We also review a number of studies applying mathematical programming to examine climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation issues in the agricultural and natural resources arena. Finally, we present a very brief discussion on research needs.

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数学规划在农业、自然资源和气候变化分析中的作用和使用


不可否认，气候变化影响着农业和自然资源、企业和市场。为了做出明智的决策，需要有关气候变化适应可能性和缓解替代方案的信息。数学规划已被用于解决此类问题的经济方面，并允许在气候变化将环境移动到以前未观察到的条件时进行分析。它使我们能够对问题的空间和动态特征进行建模，并分析迄今为止未观察到的适应和缓解可能性。这篇综述对使用数学规划作为气候变化经济分析引擎所涉及的建模技术、概念问题和主要假设进行了概述和参考，并与其他方法进行了简要比较。我们还回顾了一些应用数学编程来研究农业和自然资源领域的气候变化影响、适应和缓解问题的研究。最后，我们对研究需求进行了非常简短的讨论。