Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
10th Symposium on Global Change Studies, 10-15 January 1999, Dallas, Texas
Author: Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems
Author: Otto C. Doering IIIPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461509696
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the heart of the United States' corn belt - were subjected to climate change and changing climate variability scenarios through simulations of future climate using results from general circulation models. Crop growth models, calibrated to the study sites, were used to simulate yields under varying climate conditions. Farm level production and economic analyses were performed to determine what adaptation strategies might be best utilized to maintain production and profitability for producers under conditions of global climate change and changing climate variability. Similar integrated analyses from Australia and Argentina provide comparisons from different regions.
Climate Change, Adaptive Capacity and Development
Author: Joel B. SmithPublisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 9781860945816
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) has presented strong evidence that human-induced climatechange is occurring and that all countries of the world will beaffected and need to adapt to impacts. The IPCC points out that manydeveloping countries are particularly vulnerable because of theirrelatively low adaptive capacity.
Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
Author: James D. HaywoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Data, Models and Analysis
Author: Guoqi HanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351691201
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This volume contains the ten most cited articles that have appeared in the journal Atmosphere-Ocean since 1995. These articles cover a wide range of topics in meteorology, climatology and oceanography. Modelling work is represented in five papers, covering global climate model development; a cumulus parameterization scheme for global climate models; development of a regional forecast modelling system and parameterization of peatland hydraulic processes for climate models. Data rehabilitation and compilation in order to support trend analysis work on comprehensive precipitation and temperature data sets is presented in four papers. Field studies are represented by a paper on the circumpolar lead system. While the modelling studies are global in their application and applicability, the data analysis and field study papers cover environments that are specifically, but not uniquely, Canadian. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals in the various sub-fields of meteorology, oceanography and climate science.
Climate Change 2001: Mitigation
Author: Bert MetzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521807692
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Some issues addressed in this Working Group III volume are mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, managing biological carbon reservoirs, geo-engineering, costing methods, and decision-making frameworks.
NASA Langley Scientific and Technical Information Output: 1999
Author: Global Change
Author: Grasslands
Author: Stephen ReynoldsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482280272
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This book looks at significant current grassland problems and issues, and provides an insight into grassland productivity in diverse areas of the world, with their various production systems. There is a focus on recent technical advances and the prospects for further innovation, through twenty-one chapters by eminent grassland scientists, grouped i
Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico
Author: Georgina H. EndfieldPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444399330
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications. Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico’s rich colonial archives Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change Considers three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics