Author: International Research Institute for Climate PredictionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Proceedings of the International Forum on Climate Prediction, Agriculture and Development
Author: International Research Institute for Climate PredictionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Climate Prediction and Agriculture
Author: Mannava VK SivakumarPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540446508
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Based on an International Workshop held in Geneva in 2005, this book reviews the advances made so far in seasonal climate predictions and their applications for management and decision-making in agriculture. It also identifies the challenges to be addressed in the next 5 to 10 years to further enhance operational applications of climate predictions in agriculture, especially in developing countries.
Applied Agrometeorology
Author: Kees StigterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540746986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Farmers Agricultural policymakers Environmentalists
Food security and climate change in dry areas: Proceedings of the International conference on Food Security and Climate Change in Dry Areas Amman, Jordan 1-4 Feb 2010.
Author: Climate Variability and the Global Harvest
Author: Cynthia RosenzweigPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195137639
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Rosenzweig provides coverage of the interactions between the major climate oscillations, climate change, and agriculture. He describes climate system processes, effects of the major oscillations on natural and agro-systems, the development of seasonal climate predictions, and the relation of climate variability to society and development.
Climate Change and Vulnerability and Adaptation
Author: Neil LearyPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849770816
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change. This set of books begins to bridge the gap.' Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme 'Important reading for students and practitioners alike.' Martin Parry, Co-Chair, Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'Fills an important gap in our understanding ... It is policy-relevant and deserves to be widely read.' Richard Klein, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its 2001 report that much of the developing world is highly vulnerable to adverse impacts from climate change. But the IPCC also concluded that the vulnerabilities of developing countries are too little studied and too poorly understood to enable determination of adaptation strategies that would be effective at reducing risks. These authoritative volumes, resulting from the work of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) project launched by the IPCC in 2002, are the first to provide a comprehensive investigation of the issues at stake. Climate Change and Vulnerability discusses who is vulnerable to climate change, the nature of their vulnerability and the causes of their vulnerability for parts of the world that have been poorly researched until now. Climate Change and Adaptation covers current practices for managing climate risks to food security, water resources, livelihoods, human health and infrastructure, needs for effective management of climate risks, the changing nature of the risks, strategies for adaptation, and the need to integrate these strategies into development planning and resource management.
Decision-support Experiments and Evaluations Using Seasonal-to-interannual Forecasts and Observational Data
Author: Nancy Kay Beller-SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Climate and Land Degradation
Author: Ndegwa Ndiang'uiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540724370
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
Based on an International Workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, this book presents state-of-the-art papers, real world applications, and innovative techniques for combating land degradation. It offers recommendations for effectively using weather and climate information for sustainable land management practices.
Africa's Development in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Kwadwo Konadu-AgyemangPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754644781
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Having been under colonial rule for the first half of the century, by 1965 all but a handful of African countries had regained their independence and were poised to take off into an era of development. However, Africa now suffers from the most acute form of underdevelopment anywhere in the world. Bringing together a broad selection of case studies covering a wide range of key issues, this volume provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Africa's development opportunities and challenges into the twenty-first century.
Increasing Climate Variability and Change
Author: James SalingerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402041667
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This book reviews the latest assessments of climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on agriculture and forestry, and recommends appropriate adaptation strategies for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change. Among other solutions, the text offers management strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from different agroecosystems, and proposes the use of seasonal climate forecasts to reduce climate risk.