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245 1 0 _aManaging Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Mannava V. K. Sivakumar, Raymond P. Motha.
264 1 _aBerlin, Heidelberg :
_bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg,
_c2007.
300 _aXXX, 504 p. 134 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aExtreme Weather and Climate Events, and Farming Risks -- Preparedness and Coping Strategies for Agricultural Drought Risk Management: Recent Progress and Trends -- Challenges to Coping Strategies with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties in Africa -- Challenges to Coping Strategies with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties in Asian Regions -- Challenges and Strategies to face Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties — Regional Perspective in South America -- Agrometeorological Risk and Coping Strategies — Perspective from Indian Subcontinent -- Challenges to coping strategies in Agrometeorology: The Southwest Pacific -- Challenges to agrometeorological risk management — regional perspectives: Europe -- Methods of Evaluating Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties for Estimating Global Agricultural Supply and Demand -- Weather and climate and optimization of farm technologies at different input levels -- Complying with farmers’ conditions and needs using new weather and climate information approaches and technologies -- Information Technology and Decision Support System for On-Farm Applications to cope effectively with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties -- Coping Strategies with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties for Crop Yield -- Water management in a semi-arid region: an analogue algorithm approach for rainfall seasonal forecasting -- Water Management — Water Use in Rainfed Regions of India -- Examples of coping strategies with agrometeorological risks and uncertainties for Integrated Pest Management -- Coping Strategies with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties for Drought Examples in Brasil -- Coping Strategies with Desertification in China -- Coping strategies with agrometeorological risks and uncertainties for water erosion, runoff and soil loss -- Developing a global early warning system for wildland fire -- Scientific and Economic Rationale for Weather Risk Insurance for Agriculture -- Weather index insurance for coping with risks in agricultural production -- Weather Risk Insurance for Coping with Risks to Agricultural Production -- Contingency planning for drought — a case study in coping with agrometeorological risks and uncertainties -- Agrometeorological services to cope with risks and uncertainties -- Using Simulation Modelling as a Policy Option in Coping with Agrometeorological Risks and Uncertainties -- Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture Summary and Recommendations.
520 _aIn many parts of the world, weather and climate are one of the biggest production risks and uncertainty factors impacting on agricultural systems performance and management. Both structural and non-structural measures can be used to reduce the impacts of the variability (including extremes) of climate resources on crop production. While the structural measures include strategies such as irrigation, water harvesting, windbreaks etc., the non-structural measures include use of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts, improved application of medium-range weather forecasts and crop insurance. This book based on an International Workshop held in New Delhi, India should be of interest to all organizations and agencies interested in improved risk management in agriculture.
650 0 _aEarth sciences.
650 0 _aClimate change.
650 0 _aGeophysics.
650 0 _aAtmospheric sciences.
650 0 _aAgriculture.
650 0 _aEcotoxicology.
650 1 4 _aEarth Sciences.
650 2 4 _aAtmospheric Sciences.
650 2 4 _aClimate Change Management and Policy.
650 2 4 _aAgriculture.
650 2 4 _aEcotoxicology.
650 2 4 _aGeophysics/Geodesy.
700 1 _aSivakumar, Mannava V. K.
_eeditor.
700 1 _aMotha, Raymond P.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783540727446
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0
912 _aZDB-2-EES
950 _aEarth and Environmental Science (Springer-11646)
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