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Increasing Climate Variability And Change

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Author : James Salinger
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-12-06

Increasing Climate Variability And Change written by James Salinger and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-06 with Science categories.

One of the major challenges facing humankind is to provide an equitable standard of living for this and future generations: adequate food, water and energy, safe shelter and a healthy environment. Human-induced climate change, and increasing climate variability, as well as other global environmental issues such as land degradation and loss of biological diversity, threaten our ability to meet these basic human needs. It is undisputed that the last two decades have been the warmest this century, and likely to be the warmest for the last 1000 years, sea level is rising, rain and snowfall patterns are changing. Arctic sea ice is thinning and the frequency and intensity of El-Niño events appear to be increasing. In addition, the frequency of extreme events is rising and many parts of the world have recently suffered major heat-waves, floods and droughts leading to significant loss of life and economic costs. This requires the global community to give urgent attention to addressing key issues. The range of adaptation options for agriculture and forestry is generally increasing because of technological advances, thus reducing the vulnerability of these systems to climate change. However, some regions of the world, particularly developing countries, have limited access to these technologies. Agriculture and forestry are currently not optimally managed with respect to today’s natural climate variability. Decreasing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to increasing climatic variability will go a long way towards reducing the long-term vulnerability to climate change. This book represents a major step in assessing the science of climate variability and change, and their likely impacts on agriculture and forestry, with clear adaptation strategies required to reduce their vulnerability.

Increasing Climate Variability And Change

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Author : James Salinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Increasing Climate Variability And Change written by James Salinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Climatic changes categories.

Increasing Resilience To Climate Variability And Change

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Author : Cecilia Tortajada
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-18

Increasing Resilience To Climate Variability And Change written by Cecilia Tortajada and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.

This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas (Unites States and Mexico), Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Nepal, Mexico, Pakistan, Turkey and South Africa. They discuss the importance of infrastructure (mainly reservoirs) in adaptation strategies, how planning and management aspects should improve in response to changing climatic, economic, social and environmental situations and what the management, institutional and financial challenges would be for their implementation. Governance aspects (policies, institutions and decision making) and technical and knowledge limitations are a substantial part of the analyses. The case studies argue that reservoirs are essential to build resilience contributing to adaptation to climate variability and change. However, that for them to be effective, they need to be planned and managed within a governance framework that considers long-term perspectives and multi-sector and multi-level actor needs and perspectives.

Climate Variability And Change

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Author : R. Selvaraju
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2007-01-01

Climate Variability And Change written by R. Selvaraju and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.

The impacts of increasing climatic variability and change are global concerns but in Bangladesh, where large numbers of people are chronically exposed and vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, they are particularly critical. This resource book, Climate variability and change: adaptation to drought in Bangladesh, has been tested and prepared as a reference and guide for further training and capacity building of agricultural extension workers and development professionals to deal with climate change impacts and adaptation, using the example of drought-prone areas of Bangladesh. It also presents suggestions for a three-day training course that would be readily adaptable for any areas of Bangladesh affected by climate-related risks. The information presented on climate change adaptation would enable participants to prepare, demonstrate and implement location-specific adaptation practices and, thus, to improve the adaptive capacity of rural livelihoods to climate change in agriculture and allied sectors.

Livelihood Adaptation To Climate Variability And Change In Drought Prone Areas Of Bangladesh

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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher: Fao
Release Date : 2006

Livelihood Adaptation To Climate Variability And Change In Drought Prone Areas Of Bangladesh written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by Fao this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.

The impacts of climate variability and change are global concerns but in Bangladesh they are particularly critical. FAO and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre are guiding a project to assess livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in the drought-prone areas of Northwest Bangladesh. It covers: the characterisation of livelihood systems; profiling of vulnerable groups; assessment of past and current climate impacts; and understanding of local perceptions of climate impacts, local coping capacities and existing adaptation strategies. It also is developing a good practice adaptation option menu, evaluating and field testing locally selected options, and introducing long-lead climate forecasting, capacity building and training of Department of Agricultural Extension staff and community representatives. This report summarises the project methodology and discusses interim findings and recommendations.

Biometeorology For Adaptation To Climate Variability And Change

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Author : Kristie L. Ebi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-12-17

Biometeorology For Adaptation To Climate Variability And Change written by Kristie L. Ebi and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-17 with Science categories.

Biometeorology continues to grow as a discipline. It is increasingly recognised for its importance in providing science of relevance to society and well being of the environment. This book is the first in a new book series on Biometeorology. The purpose of the new series is to communicate the interdisciplinary philosophy and science of biometeorology to as wide an audience as possible, introduce scientists and policy makers to the societal relevance of and recent developments in its s- fields and demonstrate how a biometeorological approach can provide insights to the understanding and possible solution of cross-cutting environmental issues. One such cross-cutting environmental issue is climate change. While the literature on the science of climate change, climate change mitigation and the impacts of climate change is voluminous, that on adaptation to climate change is meagre in comparison. The purpose of this book is to partly redress this imbalance by providing insights from a biometeorological perspective. The book acknowledges that society has a long history of adapting to the impacts associated with climatic variability and change but makes the point that climate change poses a real threat to already strained coping systems. Therefore there is a need to realign human use systems with changing climate conditions.

Scientific Assessment Of Climate Change

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Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Scientific Assessment Of Climate Change written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Climatic changes categories.

Journal Of Agricultural And Applied Economics

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Journal Of Agricultural And Applied Economics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Agriculture categories.

National Adaptation Programme Of Action Napa To Climate Change

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Author : National Adaptation Programme of Action (Nepal)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

National Adaptation Programme Of Action Napa To Climate Change written by National Adaptation Programme of Action (Nepal) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Climatic changes categories.

Climate Change 2007 Mitigation Of Climate Change

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Climate Change 2007 Mitigation Of Climate Change written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Climatic changes categories.