Climate Change and Food Security Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lobell, David B. (Editor ), Burke, Marshall (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Colección:Advances in Global Change Research, 37
Temas:
Environment.
Sustainability.
Agriculture.
Climatology.
Earth sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Climate Sciences.
Earth Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I
  • Climate Effects on Food Security: An Overview
  • Climate Models and Their Projections of Future Changes
  • II
  • Crop Response to Climate: Ecophysiological Models
  • Crop Responses to Climate: Time-Series Models
  • Crop Responses to Climate and Weather: Cross-Section and Panel Models
  • Direct Effects of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on Crop Yields
  • III
  • Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change: What Do We Know?
  • Breeding Strategies to Adapt Crops to a Changing Climate
  • IV
  • Global and Regional Assessments
  • Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Erratum.

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