Climate Variability And The Global Harvest

Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig,Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190285937

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Climate Variability and the Global Harvest by Cynthia Rosenzweig,Daniel Hillel Pdf

The Earth's climate is constantly changing. Some of the changes are progressive, while others fluctuate at various time scales. The El Niño-la Niña cycle is one such fluctuation that recurs every few years and has far-reaching impacts. It generally appears at least once per decade, but this may vary with our changing climate. The exact frequency, sequence, duration and intensity of El Niño's manifestations, as well as its effects and geographic distributions, are highly variable. The El Niño-la Niña cycle is particularly challenging to study due to its many interlinked phenomena that occur in various locations around the globe. These worldwide teleconnections are precisely what makes studying El Niño-la Niña so important. Cynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel describe the current efforts to develop and apply a global-to-regional approach to climate-risk management. They explain how atmospheric and social scientists are cooperating with agricultural practitioners in various regions around the world to determine how farmers may benefit most from new climate predictions. Specifically, the emerging ability to predict the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle offers the potential to transform agricultural planning worldwide. Biophysical scientists are only now beginning to recognize the large-scale, globally distributed impacts of ENSO on the probabilities of seasonal precipitation and temperature regimes. Meanwhile, social scientists have been researching how to disseminate forecasts more effectively within rural communities. Consequently, as the quality of climatic predictions have improved, the dissemination and presentation of forecasts have become more effective as well. This book explores the growing understanding of the interconnectedness of climate predictions and productive agriculture for sustainable development, as well as methods and models used to study this relationship.

Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig,Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015039044998

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Climate Change and the Global Harvest by Cynthia Rosenzweig,Daniel Hillel Pdf

This book analyzes and elucidates the nature of predictable changes on the world's agricultural system caused by the so-called greenhouse effect. Its aim is to educate students at the undergraduate level about how the climatic factors affecting agriculture may be modified in the future, andwhat practical adaptations might be undertaken to prevent or overcome any possible adverse impacts on our ability to feed the world's population. The book draws on several complimentary disciplines, including atmospheric science, hydrology, soil science, crop physiology, and resource economics, andintegrates the relevant aspects of these fields.

Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig,Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198031475

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Climate Variability and the Global Harvest by Cynthia Rosenzweig,Daniel Hillel Pdf

The Earth's climate is constantly changing. Some of the changes are progressive, while others fluctuate at various time scales. The El Ni?o-la Ni?a cycle is one such fluctuation that recurs every few years and has far-reaching impacts. It generally appears at least once per decade, but this may vary with our changing climate. The exact frequency, sequence, duration and intensity of El Ni?o's manifestations, as well as its effects and geographic distributions, are highly variable. The El Ni?o-la Ni?a cycle is particularly challenging to study due to its many interlinked phenomena that occur in various locations around the globe. These worldwide teleconnections are precisely what makes studying El Ni?o-la Ni?a so important. Cynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel describe the current efforts to develop and apply a global-to-regional approach to climate-risk management. They explain how atmospheric and social scientists are cooperating with agricultural practitioners in various regions around the world to determine how farmers may benefit most from new climate predictions. Specifically, the emerging ability to predict the El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle offers the potential to transform agricultural planning worldwide. Biophysical scientists are only now beginning to recognize the large-scale, globally distributed impacts of ENSO on the probabilities of seasonal precipitation and temperature regimes. Meanwhile, social scientists have been researching how to disseminate forecasts more effectively within rural communities. Consequently, as the quality of climatic predictions have improved, the dissemination and presentation of forecasts have become more effective as well. This book explores the growing understanding of the interconnectedness of climate predictions and productive agriculture for sustainable development, as well as methods and models used to study this relationship.

Author : Rattan Lal,Norman Uphoff,Bobby A. Stewart,David O. Hansen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420028614

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Climate Change and Global Food Security by Rattan Lal,Norman Uphoff,Bobby A. Stewart,David O. Hansen Pdf

In order to feed their burgeoning populations, developing nations will need to double cereal production by the year 2050. This increase will have to come from existing land, as little potential exists for bringing new land under cultivation -- a daunting prospect when one realizes that increased use and significantly higher concentrations of carbon dioxide have led to a severe depletion of the carbon pool in the world's soils. This is especially telling in developing countries where tropical climates further compromise the soil's ability to recover. In Climate Change and Global Food Security, bestselling editor Rattan Lal heads up a team of the world's top soil scientists and ecologists to document the history of this impending agricultural crisis and explore possible solutions. Throughout this timely text, the authors address six complex themes: 1. The impact of projected climate change on soil quality, water resources, temperature regime, and growing season duration on net primary productivity of different biomes 2. Soil carbon dynamics under changing climate 3. The impact of changes in carbon dioxide and ecological environments on agronomic yields and food production in different regions of the world 4. World food demands and supply during the 21st century 5. Policy and economic issues related to carbon trading and enhancing agricultural production 6. Research and development priorities for enhancing soil carbon pool and food security This hard-hitting text is essential reading for anyone involved with soil and crop sciences as well as policy makers and change agents who need to come to the forefront of this issue armed with the latest information and viable solutions.

Author : Vikram M. Mehta
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315356877

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Natural Decadal Climate Variability by Vikram M. Mehta Pdf

Natural Decadal Climate Variability: Societal Impacts is an important work for understanding the natural decadal climate variability (DCV), a phenomenon which has made long lasting impacts on civilizations, especially on water availability and agriculture. This book comprehensively covers multiyear to decadal variations in instrument measured precipitation and temperature, water availability and river flows, crop production, agricultural irrigation, inland water-borne transportation, hydroelectricity generation, and fish and crustacean captures since the 1960s. A longer term perspective is provided with the use of multi-century data on dry and wet epochs based on tree ring information, and corroborating evidence from other literature. This valuable work will benefit climate scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, agronomists, water transportation planners, resource economists, policymakers, professors, and graduate students and anyone else who has an interest in learning how natural climate phenomena has influenced societies for at least the past 1000 years.

Author : John M. Reilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521016282

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Agriculture: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the United States by John M. Reilly Pdf

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Author : John R. Burch, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781476665276

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Climate Change and American Policy by John R. Burch, Jr. Pdf

Climate change has long been a contentious issue, even before its official acknowledgment as a global threat in 1979. Government policies have varied widely, from Barack Obama's dedication to environmentalism to George W. Bush's tacit minimizing of the problem to Republican officials' refusal to acknowledge the scientific evidence supporting anthropogenic climate change. Presented chronologically, this collection of important policy-shaping documents shows how the views of both advocates and deniers of climate change have developed over the past four decades.

Author : Nakashima, Douglas,Krupnik, Igor,Rubis, Jennifer
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231002762

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Indigenous knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation by Nakashima, Douglas,Krupnik, Igor,Rubis, Jennifer Pdf

This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO's Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University's Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the IPCC, and other organisations

Author : Linda O. Mearns
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402016182

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Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture by Linda O. Mearns Pdf

This book presents a collection of articles concerning key topics which examine the impacts of climate change and variability on agriculture. The application region is the southeastern United States. The main topics include an investigation of the effect of variations in the spatial scale of climate change scenarios on an agricultural integrated assessment, methods of simulating adaptations of climate change, and the relationship between large scale climate variability and local climate and vegetation. This book will be very useful for researchers and policy makers involved in climate change impacts.

Author : Otto C. Doering III,J.C. Randolph,Jane Southworth,Rebecca A. Pfeifer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461509691

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Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems by Otto C. Doering III,J.C. Randolph,Jane Southworth,Rebecca A. Pfeifer Pdf

Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the heart of the United States' corn belt - were subjected to climate change and changing climate variability scenarios through simulations of future climate using results from general circulation models. Crop growth models, calibrated to the study sites, were used to simulate yields under varying climate conditions. Farm level production and economic analyses were performed to determine what adaptation strategies might be best utilized to maintain production and profitability for producers under conditions of global climate change and changing climate variability. Similar integrated analyses from Australia and Argentina provide comparisons from different regions.

Author : Stephen Gardiner,Simon Caney,Dale Jamieson,Henry Shue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199750580

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Climate Ethics by Stephen Gardiner,Simon Caney,Dale Jamieson,Henry Shue Pdf

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.

Author : David B. Lobell,Marshall Burke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048129522

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Climate Change and Food Security by David B. Lobell,Marshall Burke Pdf

Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data. This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.

Author : James Salinger,Mannava VK Sivakumar,Raymond P. Motha
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402041662

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Increasing Climate Variability and Change by James Salinger,Mannava VK Sivakumar,Raymond P. Motha Pdf

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.

Author : Himanshu Pathak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819979356

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Climate Change Impacts on Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum by Himanshu Pathak Pdf

Author : John M. Reilly
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429715402

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Economic Issues In Global Climate Change by John M. Reilly Pdf

This book provides a snapshot on economic thinking about global change and provides a starting point for researchers for evaluating the economics of global change in the context of agriculture, forestry, and resource issues. It attempts to rectify the scarcity of economic analysis in global change.