Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability
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,
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Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability
Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability
Mukhtar Ahmed • Claudio O. Stockle Editors
Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability
Editors Mukhtar Ahmed Department of Agronomy Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Claudio O. Stockle Biological System Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA
Department of Biological Systems Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-32057-1 ISBN 978-3-319-32059-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32059-5
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Preface
Climate change is one of the burning issues in all fields of life starting from social sciences and going to the applied sciences. Climate vulnerability threatens global climatic cycles and world food production systems, thus affecting the life of people. Most of the world is exposed to the effects of climatic change due to extreme variability in temperature and rainfall. Climate change is the defining issue of time and the extreme case scenario of climate change is very horrible. Future generations might curse us if we will not address this issue in the appropriate way. The Paris Climate Agreement (COP21) is one of the efforts to mitigate climate change in which an agreement has been signed to bring global temperature increase well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) and to pursue efforts to limit to 1.5 °C, but this requires its accurate implementation. Similarly, balance between sources and sinks of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is necessary to reduce the risks related to c
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