书目名称 | Climate Change and Food Security |
副标题 | Adapting Agriculture |
编辑 | David Lobell,Marshall Burke |
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丛书名称 | Advances in Global Change Research |
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描述 | .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 bo |
出版日期 | Book 2010 |
关键词 | Agriculture; Climate change; Food security; Global warming; Oxide; crop yield; crops; farmers; Climate chang |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2953-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-2952-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-2953-9Series ISSN 1574-0919 Series E-ISSN 2215-1621 |
issn_series | 1574-0919 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 |