Handbook of climate change and agroecosystems : global and regional aspects and implications

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Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future. It has already begun to be manifested in the weather regimes affecting agroecosystems, food production, and rural livelihoods in many regions around the world. It is a real and growing challenge to the world at large and in particular to the scientific community, which is called upon with increasing urgency to respond effectively.The second volume in the ICP Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Global and Regional Aspects and Implications is published jointly by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America and Imperial College Press. The ongoing series is dedicated to elucidating the actual and potential impacts of climate change, and to formulating effective responses to this global challenge. It is designed to inform, spur, and integrate the work of leading researchers in the major regions of the world, and to further international cooperation in this crucial field.

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This second volume in Imperial College Press's global climate change series is a welcome addition to the literature. It is divided into three parts: agronomic contributions to climate change solutions, regional perspectives on adaptation to climate change, and activities related to improving climate change solutions. As in volume 1 (subtitled Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation; CH, Aug'11, 48-6912), the editors and contributors accept global climate change as reality--without attributing cause--and take a multidisciplinary overview of response to that change from an agronomic perspective. The strengths of the current work are its truly global coverage, in which specific effects of climate change are discussed by region as well as agricultural adaptations planned and in place. The global synopsis is preceded by two excellent chapters addressing the adaptation of agriculture in response to climate change. The volume's weakness is an insufficiently ruthless pruning of chapter content that is tangential to the central theme of the book. The latter chapters particularly suffer in this respect. Overall, this book is clearly written, generally mistake-free, and filled with an appropriate mix of text and easily interpretable figures and tables. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. M. S. Coyne University of Kentucky

Daniel Hillel and Cynthia RosenzweigDaniel Hillel and Cynthia RosenzweigDavid W. WolfeJerry L. HatfieldWalter E. Baethgen and Lisa GoddardJohn R. Porter and Jean-Francois Soussana and Elias Fereres and Stephen Long and Fritz Mohren and Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio and Joachim von BraunJesse Naab and Andre Bationo and Benson M. Wafula and Pierre S. Traore and Robert Zougmore and Mamadou Ouattara and Ramadjita Tabo and Paul L. G. VlekPeter J. Thorburn and Michael J. Robertson and Brent E. Clothier and Val O. Snow and Ed Charmley and Jon Sanderman and Edmar Teixeira and Robyn A. Dynes and Alistair Hall and Hamish Brown and S. Mark Howden and Michael BattagliaShawki Barghouti and Shoaib Ismail and Rachael McDonnellShabtai Cohen and Guy Levy and Meni Ben-HurLiang Tang and Yan Zhu and Weixing Cao and Yu ZhangPramod Aggarwal and Himanshu Pathak and Soora N. Kumar and Pradeep SharmaMary Beth KirkhamMannava V.K. Sivakumar and Oksana Tarasova and Slobodan Nickovic and Deon Terblanche and Ghassem AsrarCynthia Rosenzweig and James W. Jones and Jerry L. Hatfield and Carolyn Z. Mutter and Samuel G.K. Adiku and Ashfaq Ahmed and Yacob Beletse and Babooji Gangwar and Dileepkumar Guntuku and Job Kihara and Patricia Masikati and Ponnusamy Paramasivan and K.P.C. Rao and Lareef ZubairCynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
About the Editors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Global and Regional Perspectives	p. xvii
Section I Themes	p. 1
Chapter 1 Agriculture and Environment in a Crowding and Warming World	p. 3
Chapter 2 Contributions to Climate Change Solutions from the Agronomy Perspective	p. 11
Section II Regions	p. 31
Chapter 3 North American Perspectives on Potential Climate Change and Agricultural Responses	p. 33
Chapter 4 Latin American Perspectives on Adaptation of Agricultural Systems to Climate Variability and Change	p. 57
Chapter 5 European Perspectives: An Agronomic Science Plan for Food Security in a Changing Climate	p. 73
Chapter 6 African Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Potential	p. 85
Chapter 7 Australia and New Zealand Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture	p. 107
Chapter 8 Middle East and North Africa Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture: Adaptation Strategies	p. 143
Chapter 9 Israeli Perspectives on Climate Change Influences on Semi-Arid Agriculture, Forestry and Soil Conservation	p. 161
Chapter 10 China Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Potential	p. 193
Chapter 11 South Asia Perspectives on Climate Change and Agriculture: Adaptation Options	p. 209
Section III Programs and Projects	p. 223
Chapter 12 Research Needs for Agriculture Under Elevated Carbon Dioxide	p. 225
Chapter 13 Contributions of WMO Programs in Addressing Climate Change and Agriculture	p. 235
Chapter 14 The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Integrated Regional Assessment Projects	p. 263
Conclusion Agricultural Solutions for Climate Change at Global and Regional Scales	p. 281
Index	p. 293

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