Overview
- Reviews the latest assessments of climate variability and climate change, and impacts on agriculture and forestry
- Recommends appropriate adaptation strategies to reduce vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change
- Provides examples of management strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from different agroecosystems
- Identifies the use of seasonal climate forecasts to reduce climate risk
- Develops education and training required for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jim Salinger is a senior climate researcher. As a leading climate change expert, he has been involved in researching and monitoring past and current climate trends, as a university climate researcher, and later in the former New Zealand Meteorological Service.
Shiv Sivakumar is a senior scientist at the World Meteorological Organisation.
Raymond Motha is Chief Meteorologist of The World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Increasing Climate Variability and Change
Book Subtitle: Reducing the Vulnerability of Agriculture and Forestry
Editors: James Salinger, M.V.K. Sivakumar, Raymond P. Motha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4166-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3354-4Published: 11 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6842-2Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4166-2Published: 06 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 362
Additional Information: Reprinted from CLIMATIC CHANGE, 70:1-2, 2005
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change, Environmental Management, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Agriculture, Forestry Management