| ISBN13: | 9781786395351 |
| ISBN10: | 1786395355 |
| Kötéstípus: | Puhakötés |
| Terjedelem: | 298 oldal |
| Méret: | 244x172 mm |
| Súly: | 666 g |
| Nyelv: | angol |
| 784 |
Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
GBP 49.45
A Prosperónál jelenleg nincsen raktáron.
This book focuses on future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services to society. This book brings together a series of chapters providing scientific insights to possible implications of projected climate changes for different crop types and livestock systems.
Agriculture is susceptible to climate change and to ensure food, feed, and fiber production for future generations will require effective adaptation strategies. Fuhrer (Agroscope Research, Switzerland) and Gregory (Univ. of Reading, UK) have assembled an international group of authors to discuss crop and livestock production systems and their response to a changing climate and to address the limitations to adaptation practices in rain-fed and irrigated agricultural systems. A key component of this volume is the in-depth treatment of climate variation and its effect on agricultural production and the potential requirements to produce food to feed the global population. The book provides useful discussions of agroecosystems in various parts of the world (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas). It also covers the requirements for land management for multiple ecosystem services-critical for linking production goals with societal goals. This volume provides a solid foundation for the discussion of climate resilience in agricultural systems and the requirements to keep improving agricultural production.
--J. L. Hatfield, USDA-Agricultural Research Service
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.
- a: Introduction
- 1: Climate projections for 2050
- 2: Rainfed Intensive Crop Systems
- 3: Climate Sensitivity of Intensive Rice-Wheat Systems in Tropical Asia: Focus on the Indo-Gangetic Plains
- 4: Climate Change Challenges for Low Input Cropping and Grazing Systems ? Australia
- 5: Diversity in Organic and Agroecological Farming Systems for Mitigation of Climate Change Impact, with Examples from Latin America
- 6: UK Fruit and Vegetable Production ? Impacts of Climate Change and Opportunities for Adaptation
- 7: Intensive Livestock Systems for Dairy Cows
- 8: Climate Change and Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Temperate-Humid Regions of North and South America: Mitigation and Adaptation
- 9: Land Managed for Multiple Services
- 10: Adaptation of Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Asia
- 11: Enhancing Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems
- 12: Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems: Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World
- 13: The Role of Modelling in Adapting and Building the Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems
- 14: Agroforestry Solutions for Buffering Climate Variability and Adapting to Change
- 15: Channelling the Future? The Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Climate Adaptation
- 16: Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: New Approaches to Knowledge and Learning
- 17: What are the Factors that Dictate the Choice of Coping Strategies for Extreme Climate Events? The Case of Farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
