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Title Impact of climate change on water resources in agriculture / editors Cornélio Alberto Zolin, Renato de A.R. Rodrigues
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2016]
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Contents Front Cover; Preface; Contents; 1. The Role of Agriculture on the UNFCCC Negotiation Process; 2. Policies and Initiatives Related to Water and Climate Change in Agriculture: Case Studies from Brazil and Africa; 3. Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases; 4. Proposal for the Construction of a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Monitoring System for the ABC Plan-Sectoral Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change for the Consolidation of a Low Carbon Agriculture Economy; 5. Agrosilvopastoral Systems in Brazil: An Agricultural Productive Strategy Based on Green Economy Concepts
6. Soil Conservation and Carbon Sequestration: Agroforestry Systems as a Promising Alternative7. Forests, Land Use Change, and Water; 8. Uncertainty is the Key Challenge for Agricultural Water Resources Management under Climate Change in the BRICS; 9. Trading off Agriculture with Nature's Other Benefits, Spatially; 10. Can Investment in River Basins Sustain Global Development of Food and Energy Systems?
Summary Climate change and its impact on water resources in agriculture pose one of the biggest challenges for food, energy, fiber, and water security worldwide and, as a consequence, for society. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach towards climate change and water resources in agriculture and provides a comprehensive perspective about the core points central to this subject. Beside other fundamental topics that are covered in this book, important insights concerning hydrological cycle, forests, land use change and water, low carbon agriculture, green economy concepts, as well as the state
Analysis natuurinclusieve landbouw
nature-inclusive agriculture
klimaatverandering
climatic change
voedselketens
food chains
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Crops and climate.
Water-supply -- Climatic factors.
Agriculture -- Water-supply
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
Agriculture -- Water-supply
Crops and climate
Water-supply -- Climatic factors
Form Electronic book
Author Zolin, Cornelio Alberto, editor
Rodrigues, Renato de A. R., editor
ISBN 9781498706179
1498706177