Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Emmanuel Torquebiau.
• Editors: Torquebiau, Emmanuel
• Other Names: Torquebiau, Emmanuel
• Contents: Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. How climate change reshuffles the cards for agriculture -- PART 1 -- COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE -- Chapter 2. Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk -- Chapter 3. Rice adaptation strategies in response to heat stress at flowering -- Chapter 4. Adaptation to salinity -- Chapter 5. Enhanced drought adaptation in African savanna crops -- Chapter 6. Tropical crop pests and diseases in a climate change setting -- a few examples -- Chapter 7. Healthy tropical plants to mitigate the impact of climate change -- as exemplified in coffee -- Chapter 8. Climate change and vector-borne zoonotic diseases -- Chapter 9. Relationships between tropical annual cropping systems and climate change -- PART 2 -- SEEKING NOVEL PRACTICES -- Chapter 10. Livestock farming constraints in developing countries -- from adaptation to mitigation in ruminant production systems -- Chapter 11. Climate-smart farms? Case studies in Burkina Faso and Colombia -- Chapter 12. Joint management of water resources in response to climate change disruptions -- Chapter 13. Agricultural organic waste recycling to reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- Chapter 14. Will tropical rainforests survive climate change? -- Chapter 15. Adaptation and mitigation in tropical tree plantations -- Chapter 16. Coffee and cocoa production in agroforestry -- a climate-smart agriculture model -- PART 3 -- STIMULATING CHANGE -- Chapter 17. Impact of climate change on food consumption and nutrition -- Chapter 18. The One Health concept to dovetail health and climate change policies -- Chapter 19. Impact of climate change on ecosystem services -- Chapter 20. Life cycle assessment to understand agriculture-climate change linkages -- Chapter 21. Payment for environmental services in climate change policies -- Chapter 22. Tackling the climate change challenge: What roles for certification and ecolabels? -- Chapter 23. Climate policy assessment on global and national scales -- PART 4 -- LOOKING AHEAD -- Chapter 24. What about climate-smart agriculture? -- Chapter 25. Climate-smart agriculture and international climate change negotiation forums -- Chapter 26. New research perspectives to address climate challenges facing agriculture worldwide -- Boxes -- List of Authors -- Research Unit Acronyms.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 570; Climatic changes; Biotic communities; Life sciences; Agriculture; Sustainable development; Crops and climate; Agricultural ecology -- France; Life Sciences; Agriculture; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Ecosystems; Climate Change Management and Policy; Agricultural ecology; Agriculture; Biotic communities; Climatic changes; Crops and climate; Life sciences; Sustainable development; France; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9401774625; 9789401774628
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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