Author: Cleveland AbbePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A First Report on the Relations Between Climates and Crops
Author: Cleveland AbbePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Farming for Our Future
Author: PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585762378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.
Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309471699
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the risks to society and the impacts of continued climate change can be lessened. The National Climate Assessment, coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is a mandated report intended to inform response decisions. Required to be developed every four years, these reports provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of climate change impacts available for the United States, making them a unique and important climate change document. The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed here addresses a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to ecosystems and natural resources. This report evaluates the draft NCA4 to determine if it meets the requirements of the federal mandate, whether it provides accurate information grounded in the scientific literature, and whether it effectively communicates climate science, impacts, and responses for general audiences including the public, decision makers, and other stakeholders.
The Influence of Weather on Crops, 1900-1930
Author: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Contains administrative report only.
Monthly Weather Review
Author: A First Report on the Relations Between Climates and Crops
Author: Cleveland AbbePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crops and climate
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Summary of expert opinion published up to 1891, on seed germination; soil temperature and moisture; solar energy; atmospheric conditions; and influences of climate; with data for selected U.S. and foreign locations.
Circular
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of PublicationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Agrometeorology of the Rice Crop
Author: World Meteorological OrganizationPublisher: IRRI
ISBN: 9711040336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Lab for All Seasons
Author: Sharon E. KingslandPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300271573
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in the study of plant adaptation, evolution, and ecosystem function. The phytotron, an integrated complex of controlled-environment greenhouse and laboratory spaces, invented by Frits W. Went in the 1950s, set off a worldwide laboratory movement and transformed the plant sciences. Sharon Kingsland explores this revolution through a comparative study of work in the United States, France, Australia, Israel, the USSR, and Hungary. These advances in botanical research energized physiological plant ecology. Case studies explore the development of phytotron spinoffs such as mobile laboratories, rhizotrons, and ecotrons. Scientific problems include the significance of plant emissions of volatile organic compounds, symbiosis between plants and soil fungi, and the discovery of new pathways for photosynthesis as an adaptation to hot, dry climates. The advancement of knowledge through synthesis is a running theme: linking disciplines, combining laboratory and field research, and moving across ecological scales from leaf to ecosystem. The book also charts the history of modern scientific responses to the emerging crisis of food insecurity in the era of global warming.