Format:
Online-Ressource (XII, 285 S.)
ISBN:
9781780642895
Series Statement:
CABI climate change series 5
Content:
This book contains 17 chapters focusing on the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, food security, water resources and economic stability. Strategies to develop sustainable systems that minimize impact on climate and/or mitigate the effects of human activity on climate change are also presented.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems - 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
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7 Intensive Livestock Systems for Dairy Cows8 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
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14 Agroforestry Solutions for Buffering Climate Variability and Adapting to Change15 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; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780642895
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Climate change impact and adaptation in agricultural systems Wallingford : CABI, [2014]
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
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General works
Keywords:
Anthropogene Klimaänderung
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Landwirtschaft
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Pflanzenproduktion
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Einundzwanzig Bogen aus der Schweiz
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.1079/9781780642895.0000
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