Assessing The Impacts Of Climate Change On Natural Resource Systems

Author : Kenneth D. Frederick,Norman J. Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401102070

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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Natural Resource Systems by Kenneth D. Frederick,Norman J. Rosenberg Pdf

This volume characterizes the current state of natural science and socioeconomic modeling of the impacts of climate change and current climate variability on forests, grasslands, and water. It identifies what can be done currently with impact assessments and suggests how to undertake such assessments. Impediments to linking biophysical and socioeconomic models into integrated assessments for policy purposes are identified, and recommendations for future research activities to improve the state of the art and remove these impediments to model integration are provided. This book is for natural and social scientists with an interest in the impacts of climate change on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their socioeconomic impacts, and policy makers interested in understanding the status of current assessment capabilities and in identifying priority areas for future research.

Author : Pavan Kumar,Ram Kumar Singh,Manoj Kumar,Meenu Rani,Pardeep Sharma
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781119793397

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Climate Impacts on Sustainable Natural Resource Management by Pavan Kumar,Ram Kumar Singh,Manoj Kumar,Meenu Rani,Pardeep Sharma Pdf

CLIMATE IMPACTS ON SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Climate change has emerged as one of the predominant global concerns of the 21st century. Statistics show that the average surface temperature of the Earth has increased by about 1.18°C since the late 19th century and the sea levels are rising due to the melting of glaciers. Further rise in the global temperature will have dire consequences for the survival of humans on the planet Earth. There is a need to monitor climatic data and associated drivers of changes to develop sustainable planning. The anthropogenic activities that are linked to climate change need scientific evaluation and must be curtailed before it is too late. This book contributes significantly in the field of sustainable natural resource management linked to climate change. Up to date research findings from developing and developed countries like India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the USA have been presented through selected case studies covering different thematic areas. The book has been organised into six major themes of sustainable natural resource management, determinants of forest productivity, agriculture and climate change, water resource management and riverine health, climate change threat on natural resources, and linkages between natural resources and biotic-abiotic stressors to develop the concept and to present the findings in a way that is useful for a wide range of readers. While the range of applications and innovative techniques is constantly increasing, this book provides a summary of findings to provide the updated information. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of environmental sciences, remote sensing, geographical information system, meteorology, sociology and policy studies related to natural resource management and climate change.

Author : C. Fai Fung,Ana Lopez,Mark New
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444348170

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Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources by C. Fai Fung,Ana Lopez,Mark New Pdf

The quantitative assessment of the impact of climate change on water availability and water resources management requires knowledge of climate, hydro(geo)logical and water resources models, and particularly the relationships between each of them. This book brings together world experts on each of these aspects, distilling each complex topic into concise and easy to understand chapters, in which both the uses and limitations of modelling are explored. The book concludes with a set of case studies using real-life examples to illustrate the steps required and the problems that can be faced in assessing the potential impacts of climate change on water resource systems. For students, scientists, engineers and decision-makers alike, this book provides an invaluable and critical look at the information that is provided by climate models, and the ways it is used in modelling water systems. A key focus is the exploration of how uncertainties may accrue at each stage of an impacts assessment, and the reliability of the resulting information. The book is a practical guide to understanding the opportunities and pitfalls in the quantitative assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation in the water resource sector.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0662051750

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From Impacts to Adaptation by Anonim Pdf

Discusses current and future risks and opportunities that climate change presents to Canada, with a focus on human and managed systems. Based on analysis of existing knowledge.

Author : Bal Ram Singh,Andy Safalaoh,Nyambilila A. Amuri,Lars Olav Eik,Bishal K. Sitaula,Rattan Lal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030375379

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Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa by Bal Ram Singh,Andy Safalaoh,Nyambilila A. Amuri,Lars Olav Eik,Bishal K. Sitaula,Rattan Lal Pdf

This book discusses knowledge-based sustainable agro-ecological and natural resource management systems and best practices for sustained agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience for better livelihoods under a changing climate. With a focus on agriculture in Africa, the book assesses innovative technologies for use on smallholder farms, and addresses some of the key Sustainable Development Goals to guide innovative responses and enhanced adaptation methods for coping with climate change. Contributions are based on 'Capacity Building for Managing Climate Change in Malawi' (CABMACC), a five-year program with an overall goal to improve livelihoods and food security through innovative responses and enhanced capacity of adaptation to climate change. Readers will discover more about sustainable crop production, climate smart agriculture, on-farm energy supply from biogas and the potential of soil carbon sequestration in crop-livestock systems.

Author : David H. White,S. Mark Howden
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401583282

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Climate Change: Significance for Agriculture and Forestry by David H. White,S. Mark Howden Pdf

Societies throughout the world depend on food, fiber and forest products. Continuity and security of agricultural and forest production are therefore of paramount importance. Predicted changes in climate could be expected to alter, perhaps significantly, the levels and relative agricultural and forestry production of different nations over the next few decades. Agriculture and forestry are also likely to influence the rate and magnitude of such change, as they can be both significant sources and sinks of a number of greenhouse gases. Adaptive management strategies therefore need to be formulated and implemented for these sectors, to enable them to both adapt to future environmental change, and to limit greenhouse gas emissions. This book arose from an international workshop held in Canberra, Australia, under the auspices of the former IPCC Working Group III - Agriculture, Forestry and Other Human Activities Sub-Group (AFOS). A number of leading speakers at the workshop were approached to encapsulate the concepts discussed and developed at this workshop. The resulting papers make up this volume. The book promotes a greater understanding of the major sources and sinks of greenhouse gases within intensive and extensive cropping and animal production systems, and of agroforestry. It highlights the need to adopt a holistic systems approach to monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and assessing impacts, and to integrate climate change-related goals and activities with other issues, such as biodiversity, desertification, and sustainable agriculture and forestry.

Author : Bipal K. Jana,Mrinmoy Majumder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401777748

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Impact of Climate Change on Natural Resource Management by Bipal K. Jana,Mrinmoy Majumder Pdf

Climate change has fostered a need to develop and apply strategies that optimize the use of natural resources on land and in water. This book covers a huge range of strategies that combine economics, policy and science and can be applied to various sectors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437983982

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Effects of Climate Change on Natural Resources and Communities: A Compendium of Briefing Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bipal Kr. Jana,Mrinmoy Majumder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048135813

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Impact of Climate Change on Natural Resource Management by Bipal Kr. Jana,Mrinmoy Majumder Pdf

As climate change takes hold, there is an ever-growing need to develop and apply strategies that optimize the use of natural resources, both on land and in water. This book covers a huge range of strategies that can be applied to various sectors, from forests to flood control. Its aim, as with resource management itself, is to combine economics, policy and science to help rehabilitate and preserve our natural resources. Beginning with papers on carbon sequestration, including the practice of artificial desertification, the topics move on to cover the use of distributed modeling and neural networks in estimating water availability and distribution. Further chapters look at uncertainty analysis applied to the spatial variation of hydrologic resources, and finally the book covers attempts at estimating meteorological parameters in the context of hydrological variables such as evapo-transpiration from stream flow. Within the next decade, the effects of climate change will be severe, and felt by ordinary human beings. This book proposes a raft of measures that can mitigate, if not reverse, the impact of global warming on the resources we have all come to depend on.

Author : Neba Ndenecho
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789956726615

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Climate Change and the Management of Natural Systems in Cameroon by Neba Ndenecho Pdf

This book emphasises that planning is essential, as the conservation approaches of the past may not work in an ever-changing warmer environment. It appraises current management strategies, assesses the biological and physical effects of climate change on natural systems in Cameroon and designs a planning and management framework for each natural system within the context of global warming. Climate change poses a complex bewildering array of problems for ecosystems. The key question is, what can be done in addition to efforts to reduce CO2 emissions to increase the resistance and resilience of these natural systems to climate change? This book seeks to answer the above question by drawing from the vast array of scientific data available on the subject, and which may not be readily available to policy makers, resource planners, resource managers, environmentalists, students of geography, conservation biology and agronomy. It constitutes an important manual for those ready to confront the impacts of climate change. It is also a valuable document for teachers of the functioning and management of natural systems globally.

Author : Chaitanya B. Pande,Kanak N. Moharir,Sudhir Kumar Singh,Quoc Bao Pham,Ahmed Elbeltagi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031190599

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Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources, Ecosystems and Agricultural Systems by Chaitanya B. Pande,Kanak N. Moharir,Sudhir Kumar Singh,Quoc Bao Pham,Ahmed Elbeltagi Pdf

This book on the climate change, natural resources, landscape and agricultural ecosystems describes the contributing challenges related to natural resources, soil erosion, irrigation planning, water, landscape, sustainable crop yield agriculture and biomass estimation. Natural resources and agricultural ecosystems include factors from nearby regions where landscape and agriculture practices (direct or indirect) interface with the water, vegetation, irrigation planning and ecology. Changes in climatic situations impact all the natural resources, ecology, and landscape of agricultural systems, which affects productivity. This book summarizes the various aspects of soil erosion, soil compaction, soil nutrients, aquifer and water with respect to vegetation, crops, pest and sustainable yields and management for the future. It also focuses on the use of precision techniques, remote sensing, GIS technologies, IOT and climate related technology for the sustainability of ecology, natural resources and agricultural areas, along with the capacity and flexibility of natural resources and agricultural societies under climate change. This book presents both theoretical and applied aspects and will help as a guide for future research. The contents will appeal to researchers, scientists, and NGOs working in climate change, environmental sciences, agriculture engineering, remote sensing, natural resources management, remote sensing, GIS, hydrologist, soil sciences, agricultural microbiology, plant pathology and agronomy.

Author : Tsugihiro Watanabe,Selim Kapur,Mehmet Aydın,Rıza Kanber,Erhan Akça
Publisher : Springer
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030010362

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Climate Change Impacts on Basin Agro-ecosystems by Tsugihiro Watanabe,Selim Kapur,Mehmet Aydın,Rıza Kanber,Erhan Akça Pdf

This book is based on the outcomes of a Turkish-Japanese bilateral project dealing with the impacts of climate change on basin agro-ecosystems. The book is unique in showing an up-to-date knowledge for the developing world. The chapters are related to: a) the development and improvement of a regional climate model for a more accurate prediction with higher resolution of future changes in regional climate, b) the structure of land and water management in agricultural production systems in arid areas, especially to quantitatively evaluate the relationships among cropping systems, hydrological cycle and water balance in farmland and its environments, c) the assessment of the impact of climate change and its adaptation on agricultural production systems, mainly on the aspect of land and water management, and d) the vulnerability of agricultural production systems from natural changes and the measures for enhancing sustainability of agriculture. This book elaborates on the methodologies for the assessment of climate change impacts on agricultural production and adaptationIn this book, the concepts and processes of an integrated approach are outlined, and its application in a case project is introducedThe approaches described in the chapters would be applicable in different situations and could be improved with experience and the introduction of advanced techniques

Author : Zdzislaw Kaczmarek,Kenneth M. Strzepek,László Somlyódy,Valentina Priazhinskaya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792339274

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Water Resources Management in the Face of Climatic/Hydrologic Uncertainties by Zdzislaw Kaczmarek,Kenneth M. Strzepek,László Somlyódy,Valentina Priazhinskaya Pdf

This text is the first international and comprehensive discussion of the impacts of climatic fluctuations and climate change on water resources management. The book presents an overview of the impacts of climatic change/fluctuations on a wide variety of water resources sectors including river runoff, water quality, water temperature, water use and demand, reservoir management and water resource planning and management. The book is unique in that it then presents a series of case studies to both demonstrate the application of climate change impact assessment methodologies and to provide insights to catchment, river basin, and national scale impacts of climate change/fluctuations on the water resources of Africa, Europe, and North America. Audience: Researchers, scholars and students of hydrology and water management who are concerned with the issues of climate change as well as the climate change impact assessment community.

Author : Mark S. Reed,Lindsay C. Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135094300

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Land Degradation, Desertification and Climate Change by Mark S. Reed,Lindsay C. Stringer Pdf

Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them. Less still is known about how these processes are likely to interact in different social-ecological systems around the world, or how societies might be able to adapt to this twin challenge. This book identifies key vulnerabilities to the combined effects of climate change and land degradation around the world. It identifies triple-win adaptations that can tackle both climate change and land degradation, whilst supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services. The book discusses methods for monitoring effects of climate change and land degradation, and adaptations to these processes. It argues for better co-operation and knowledge exchange, so that the research, land user and policy communities can work together more effectively to tackle these challenges, harnessing the "wisdom of crowds" to assess vulnerability and adapt to climate change and land degradation, whilst protecting livelihoods and biodiversity.

Author : Holger Treidel,Jose Luis Martin-Bordes,Jason J. Gurdak
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780415689366

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Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Resources by Holger Treidel,Jose Luis Martin-Bordes,Jason J. Gurdak Pdf

Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of fresh drinking water for almost half of the world’s population and it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated ecosystems. But despite this, knowledge about the impact of climate change on groundwater quantity and quality is limited. Direct impacts of climate change on natural processes (groundwater recharge, discharge, storage, saltwater intrusion, biogeochemical reactions, chemical fate and transport) may be exacerbated by human activities (indirect impacts). Increased groundwater abstraction, for example, may be needed in areas with unsustainable or contaminated surface water resources caused by droughts and floods. Climate change effects on groundwater resources are, therefore, closely linked to other global change drivers, including population growth, urbanization and land-use change, coupled with other socio-economic and political trends. Groundwater response to global changes is a complex function that depends on climate change and variability, topography, aquifer characteristics, vegetation dynamics, and human activities. This volume contains case studies from diverse aquifer systems, scientific methods, and climatic settings that have been conducted globally under the framework of the UNESCO-IHP project Groundwater Resources Assessment under the Pressures of Humanity and Climate Change (GRAPHIC). This book presents a current and global synthesis of scientific findings and policy recommendations for scientists, water managers and policy makers towards adaptive management of groundwater sustainability under future climate change and variability.