Overview
- Compiles latest findings of studies carried out by the scientists on climate change and crops aroung the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Climate change is directly linked to the human activities, according to the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2007). In last two decades of 20th Century, accelerated anthropogenic activities pushed up the atmospheric abundance of greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, CH4, and N2O, alarmingly which enhanced the radiative forcing of the Earth’s surface and thus perturbed its heat radiation balance. As a consequence, atmospheric characteristics, such as temperature, rainfall pattern, levels of CO2 and O3 have changed significantly, affecting the farm productivity. Although rising level of CO2 may have fertilizing effect on C3 crops, but concomitant rise in atmospheric temperature, O3 level and extreme weather conditions can not only nullify the fertilizing effect of CO2, but also drastically reduce the crop production, threatening food security to burgeoning world population. Agricultural crops are not only victim of climate variability and extreme whether conditions, but also serve as a potential source of CH4 and N2O.
Therefore, in changed scenario, Kyoto Protocol (1997) has sought all signatory developed nations to cut down their emission levels as per their differential commitments to UNFCCC and developing nations to invest in less carbon emission projects to avert the process of global warming process.
In this context, the present edition, which compiles latest findings of studies carried out by the scientists on climate change and crops around the world, serves as a ready reckoner to crop scientists, atmospheric scientists, ecologists, environmentalists, research scholars and post- graduate students to update their knowledge and understanding on this issue.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Crops
Editors: S. N. Singh
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88246-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-88245-9Published: 21 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09998-4Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-88246-6Published: 25 September 2009
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 384
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts