Climate And Land Use Impacts On Natural And Artificial Systems

Author : Margarit Mircea Nistor
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128232651

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Climate and Land Use Impacts on Natural and Artificial Systems by Margarit Mircea Nistor Pdf

Climate and Land Use Impacts on Natural and Artificial Systems: Mitigation and Adaptation provides in-depth information on the linkages between climate change and land use, how they are related, how land use is shifting over time, and the major global regions at risk for climate and land use changes. This comprehensive resource discusses climatic factors and processes that impact natural and artificial systems, as well as the relationship between climate change and both natural and man-made hazards. The book includes case studies and original maps to provide real-life examples of climate change and land use over regions around the globe. In addition, the book presents future perspectives on mitigation and adaptation of the climate change impact. Summarizes current research on land use and climate change Provides future perspectives on climate change using climate models Includes case studies to provide real-life examples from various countries Incorporates high level graphics, images, and maps to support reviews and case studies

Author : Kenneth D. Frederick,Norman J. Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Pravat Kumar Shit
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031380044

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Geospatial Practices in Natural Resources Management by Pravat Kumar Shit Pdf

Author : Robert Brinkmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2585 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031019494

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability by Robert Brinkmann Pdf

The field of sustainability continues to evolve as a discipline. The world is facing multiple sustainability challenges such as climate change, water depletion, ecosystem loss, and environmental racism. The Handbook of Sustainability will provide a comprehensive reference for the field that examines in depth the major themes within what are known as the three E’s of sustainability: environment, equity, and economics. These three themes will serve as the main organizing body of the work. In addition, the work will include sections on history and sustainability, major figures in the development of sustainability as a discipline, and important organizations that contributed or that continue to contribute to sustainability as a field. The work is explicitly global in scope as it considers the very different issues associated with sustainability in the global north and south

Author : Uday Chatterjee,Biswajeet Pradhan,Suresh Kumar Subbiah,Sourav Saha,Mohammad Zakwan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323919203

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Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability by Uday Chatterjee,Biswajeet Pradhan,Suresh Kumar Subbiah,Sourav Saha,Mohammad Zakwan Pdf

Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability, Volume 1: Geospatial Approaches & Modeling brings an interdisciplinary perspective to solving complex problems in sustainability, utilizing the latest research and technologies, and includes case studies that emphasize the applications of remote sensing, GIS, and image processing for addressing the current state and future needs to achieve sustainability. As forests, land, and water are among the most precious resources on earth, emphasizing the need to conserve them for future generations and, of course, a safe and sustainable planet. The assessment of the susceptibility of all these three precious resources must therefore be addressed to inform their sustainable management. This 1st volume encourages adaptive activities among experts employed in interdisciplinary fields, from data mining and machine learning to environmental science by linking geospatial computational intelligence technology to forest, land and water issues. Presents theoretical context and practical solutions for understanding the current knowledge and where future efforts should be directed Includes case studies in each chapter demonstrating the use of geospatial technologies Offers an interdisciplinary approach to addressing susceptibility and achieving sustainability

Author : Swatantra Kumar Dubey,Prakash Kumar Jha,Pankaj Kumar Gupta,Aliva Nanda,Vivek Gupta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031120596

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Soil-Water, Agriculture, and Climate Change by Swatantra Kumar Dubey,Prakash Kumar Jha,Pankaj Kumar Gupta,Aliva Nanda,Vivek Gupta Pdf

This book presents an exploration of linkages among soil-water, agriculture, and climate change with a special focus on thematic areas for assessment, mitigation, and management of natural resources under climate change conditions. This book covers advances in modelling approaches, including machine learning (ML)/ artificial intelligence (AI) applications; GIS and remote sensing; sensors; impacts of climate change on agriculture; subsurface water; contaminants; and socio-economic impacts, which are lacking in a more comprehensive manner in the previous titles. This book encompasses updated information as well as future directions for researchers working in the field of management of natural resources. The goal of this book is to provide scientific evidence to researchers and policymakers and end-to-end value chain practitioners which may help in reducing the overall adverse impacts of climate change on water resources and the related mitigation strategies. This book focuses on the knowledge, modern tools, and techniques, i.e., machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. for soil-water, agriculture, and climate change. Further, nature-based solutions for management of natural resources with special targets on contaminants, extreme events, disturbances, etc. will be targeted. The book provides readers with the enhanced knowledge for application of engineering principles and economic and regulatory constraints to determine a soil-water, agriculture production action strategy, and select appropriate technologies to implement the strategy for a given data set at a site. It would also cover the application of laboratory, modeling, numerical methods for determination and forecasting of climate change impacts, agriculture production, pollution, soil health, etc. Overall, it provides hydrologists, environmental engineers, administrators, policy makers, consultants, and industrial experts with essential support in effective management of soils health, agricultural productions, and mitigation of extreme climatic events.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
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 : Nicole Mölders
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400715277

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Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes by Nicole Mölders Pdf

Wildfires, changing glaciers, deforestation, open-pit mining, increasing demands for food and bio-fuel production and the growth of megacities change our landscape. The book comprehensively reviews the current knowledge on how natural and anthropogenic land-use/cover changes affect weather, air quality and climate worldwide and explains how these changes may trigger further land-use/cover changes. It discusses how anthropogenic land-use/cover changes have affected local and regional climate and air quality since the settlement of America and the industrialisation. It addresses the topic how long-range transport of pollutants and dust of devasted areas as well as teleconnections may cause changes far away from the areas where the land-use/cover changes occurred, for which land-use/cover change may become an international issue similar to CO2. It also discusses relations to global change and future societal and scientific challenges related to land-use/cover changes.

Author : Daniel G. Brown,Derek T. Robinson,Nancy H. F. French,Bradley C. Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139619493

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Land Use and the Carbon Cycle by Daniel G. Brown,Derek T. Robinson,Nancy H. F. French,Bradley C. Reed Pdf

As governments and institutions work to ameliorate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global climate, there is an increasing need to understand how land-use and land-cover change is coupled to the carbon cycle, and how land management can be used to mitigate their effects. This book brings an interdisciplinary team of fifty-eight international researchers to share their novel approaches, concepts, theories and knowledge on land use and the carbon cycle. It discusses contemporary theories and approaches combined with state-of-the-art technologies. The central theme is that land use and land management are tightly integrated with the carbon cycle and it is necessary to study these processes as a single natural-human system to improve carbon accounting and mitigate climate change. The book is an invaluable resource for advanced students, researchers, land-use planners and policy makers in natural resources, geography, forestry, agricultural science, ecology, atmospheric science and environmental economics.

Author : Fennie van Straalen,Thomas Hartmann,John Sheehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315520070

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Property Rights and Climate Change by Fennie van Straalen,Thomas Hartmann,John Sheehan Pdf

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental changes, with their particular effects and impact on land use, share common issues regarding the relation between the social construction of land via property rights and the dynamics of a changing environment. Making these common issues explicit and discussing the different approaches to them is the central objective of this book. Through examining a variety of cases from the Arctic to the Australian coast, the contributors take a transdisciplinary look at the winners and losers of climate change, discuss approaches to dealing with changing environmental conditions, and stimulate pathways for further research. This book is essential reading for lawyers, planners, property rights experts and environmentalists.

Author : Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes,Fernando António Leal Pacheco
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783036502663

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Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities on Watersheds in a Changing Climate by Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes,Fernando António Leal Pacheco Pdf

The immediate goal of this Special Issue was the characterization of land uses and occupations (LULC) in watersheds and the assessment of impacts caused by anthropogenic activities. The goal was immediate because the ultimate purpose was to help bring disturbed watersheds to a better condition or a utopian sustainable status. The steps followed to attain this objective included publishing studies on the understanding of factors and variables that control hydrology and water quality changes in response to human activities. Following this first step, the Special Issue selected work that described adaption measures capable of improving the watershed condition (water availability and quality), namely LULC conversions (e.g., monocultures into agro-forestry systems). Concerning the LULC measures, however, efficacy was questioned unless supported by public programs that force consumers to participate in concomitant costs, because conversions may be viewed as an environmental service.

Author : Saul Cunningham,Andrew Young,David Lindenmayer
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643104099

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Land Use Intensification by Saul Cunningham,Andrew Young,David Lindenmayer Pdf

There can be little doubt that there are truly colossal challenges associated with providing food, fibre and energy for an expanding world population without further accelerating already rapid rates of biodiversity loss and undermining the ecosystem processes on which we all depend. These challenges are further complicated by rapid changes in climate and its additional direct impacts on agriculture, biodiversity and ecological processes. There are many different viewpoints about the best way to deal with the myriad issues associated with land use intensification and this book canvasses a number of these from different parts of the tropical and temperate world. Chapters focus on whether science can suggest new and improved approaches to reducing the conflict between productive land use and biodiversity conservation. Who should read this book? Policy makers in regional, state and federal governments, as well as scientists and the interested lay public.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210600989

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Unlocking the Sustainable Potential of Land Resources by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Pdf

Land resources are one of nature’s most precious gifts. They feed us and help our societies and economies to thrive. Some 2.5 billion agricultural smallholders worldwide manage around 500 million small farms, providing more than 80 per cent of food consumed in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. These resources are being degraded at an alarming pace. An estimated 33 per cent of soil is moderately to highly-degraded due to erosion, nutrient depletion, acidi?cation, salinization, compaction and chemical pollution. Each year we lose 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil and 15 billion trees, costing the economy around $40 billion. This report focuses on land potential evaluation systems as a critical foundation for land use planning and management. More specifically, land potential evaluation systems are needed to sustain and increase the provision of ecosystem services in the context of climate change, persistent land degradation and increasing global population and per-capita consumption levels.

Author : Holger Treidel,Jose Luis Martin-Bordes,Jason J. Gurdak
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780203120767

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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 worlds population and it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is also important in sustaining streams, lakes, wetlands, and associated ecosystems. But despite this,

Author : Jane Silberstein, M.A.,Chris Maser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466581142

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Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development, Second Edition by Jane Silberstein, M.A.,Chris Maser Pdf

Thirteen years ago, the first edition of Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development examined the question: is the environmental doomsday scenario inevitable? It then presented the underlying concepts of sustainable land-use planning and an array of alternatives for modifying conventional planning for and regulation of the development of land. This second edition captures current success stories, showcasing creative, resilient strategies for fundamentally changing the way we alter our landscape. See What’s New in the Second Edition: Explains the relationship between innovative land-use planning and nature’s impartial, inviolate biophysical principles that govern the outcome of all planning Focuses on how decision making that flows from and aligns with nature’s biophysical principles benefits all generations by consciously protecting and maintaining social-environmental sustainability Proposes an alternative framework for municipal comprehensive plans framing the community as a living system Written by two experienced professionals in sustainable development planning, the second edition revisits the successes as well as barriers to progress associated with establishing new community development models, such as EcoMunicipalities. The authors emphasize the necessity and potency of citizen involvement and initiatives. They provide proposals for alternative approaches that rest on lessons from history as well as the research, wisdom, and vision of many individuals and communities whose work they have studied. The book supplies a sturdy platform on which to continually build and innovate progress in sustainable land use planning.