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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part IV
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depend. But whether climate change represents a minor impediment or an existential threat to development is an area of substantial controversy, with different conclusions wrought from different methodologies and based on different data.
This book aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world. This broader understanding should prove useful to both scientists charged with quantifying climate threats, and policy-makers responsible for crucial decisions about how to respond. The book is especially suitable as a companion to an interdisciplinary undergraduate or graduate level class.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book provides a much needed analysis of the interactions between climate change and the food system, with emphasis on how food security is likely to be affected and interventions needed to adapt to a warmer world." (Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, New York, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Food Security
Book Subtitle: Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
Editors: David Lobell, Marshall Burke
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2953-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2951-5Published: 17 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2952-2Published: 21 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2953-9Published: 01 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 202
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations
Topics: Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Climate Change Management and Policy, Earth Sciences, general