Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ahmed, Mukhtar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Stockle, Claudio O. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Renewable energy resources.; Climate change.; Agriculture.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Environmental management.; Environmental Management.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

 This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems. It includes mitigation techniques such as use of bioenergy crops, fertilizer and manure management, conservation tillage, crop rotations, cover crops and cropping intensity, irrigation, erosion control, management of drained wetlands, lime amendments, residue management, biochar and biotechnology. It also includes Management of GHG emissions Crop models as decision support tools QTL analysis Crop water productivity Impacts of drought on cereal crops Silvopastoral systems Changing climate impact on wheat-based cropping systems of South Asia Phosphorous dynamics under changing climate Role of bioinformatics The focus of the book is climate change mitigation to enhance sustainability in agriculture. We present various kinds of mitigation options, ways to minimize GHG emissions and better use of the latest techniques in conservation and environmental-sustainability. 

 1. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Variability: An Overview (Mukhtar Ahmed) -- 2. Greenhouse gas emissions due to meat production in the last fifty years (Dario Caro) -- 3. Modeling the impact of climate variability on crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ephraim Sekyi-Annan) 4. Modeling Nitrogen Use Efficiency under Changing Climate (Muhammad Aqeel Aslam) -- 5. Climate variability impact on Rice production: Adaptation and Mitigation strategies (Mukhtar Ahmed) -- 6. QTL Modelling: An Adaptation Option in Spring Wheat for Drought Stress (Muhammad Umair Aslam) -- 7. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for Rainfed Wheat Water Productivity (Atif Mehmood) -- 8. Effects of abiotic stress in crop production (Portrait Pierluigi Calancas) -- 9. Drought Tolerance in Cereal grain crops under changing climate (Zohra Aslam) 10. Wheat Physiological Response under drought (Raseela Ashraf) -- 11. Silvopastoral systems: Best Agroecological Practice for Resilient Production Systems under Dryland and Drought Conditions (Solorio S. F. J.) -- 12. Climate variability impact on Wheat production in Europe: Adaptation and Mitigation strategies (Salem Alhajj Ali) -- 13. Quantification of climate change and variability impacts on maize production at farm level in the Wami River sub-basin, Tanzania (Sixbert K Mourice) -- 14. Climatic Variability Impact on Wheat-based cropping systems of south Asia: Adaption and Mitigation (Amanpreet-Kaur) -- 15. Models to Study Phosphorous Dynamics under Changing Climate (Waqas Ijaz) -- 16. Studying Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Yield by Using DSSAT and GIS: A Case Study of Pothowar Region (Mahwish Jabeen) -- 17. A Role of BIOINFORMATICS in Agriculture (Zohra Aslam).