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  • Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

    A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, ... Read more

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  • Climate Change in the Midwest

    A Synthesis Report for the National Climate Assessment

    Series series NCA Regional Input Reports
    Developed to inform the 2013 National Climate Assessment, and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage and conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Climate Change in the Midwest examines the known effects and relationships of climate change variables on the eight states that make up the region.This state of the art assessment comes from a broad ... Read more

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  • Food Security and Climate Change

    This book looks at the current state of food security and climate change, discusses the issues that are affecting them, and the actions required to ensure there will be enough food for the future. By casting a much wider net than most previously published books—to include select novel approaches, techniques, genes from crop diverse genetic resources or relatives—it shows how agriculture may still ... Read more

    $195.00 USD

  • Advances in crop modelling for a sustainable agriculture

    Series Book 75 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Focus on development of next generation of whole farm models to improve decision making and support for farmersAddresses the challenges of combining modular sub-systems into whole farm system modelsReviews the performance of specific models such as APSIM and DSSAT ... Read more

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  • Convergence of Food Security, Energy Security and Sustainable Agriculture

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines the interrelated fields of food security, energy security and sustainable agriculture as the key to a stable global agricultural platform and is arranged in six parts. The first part is focused on policy considerations relating to food and energy security and sustainable agriculture. The authors from this part include Former Under Secretary of Agriculture Gale Buchanan, Former ... Read more

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    Food Security in a Changing Climate

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  • Water Quality Indices

    This book covers water quality indices (WQI) in depth – it describes what purpose they serve, how they are generated, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and how to make the best use of them. It is a concise and unique guide to WQIs for chemists, chemical/environmental engineers and government officials. Whereas it is easy to express the quantity of water, it is very difficult to express its ... Read more

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  • Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity

    This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed ... Read more

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  • Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

    This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural systems and comparing options for climate change mitigation based on emission reductions and livelihood trade-offs. Globally, agriculture is directly responsible for about 11% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and induces an additional 17% through land use change, ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Recycled Concrete and Demolition Waste

    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
    The civil engineering sector accounts for a significant percentage of global material and energy consumption and is a major contributor of waste material. The ability to recycle and reuse concrete and demolition waste is critical to reducing environmental impacts in meeting national, regional and global environmental targets. Handbook of recycled concrete and demolition waste summarises key recent ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter.Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought together ... Read more

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    Methods for terrestrial investigations in Europe with an overview of North America and Asia

    Series Book 12 - Developments in Environmental Science
    The demand for comparable, long-term, high quality data on forest ecosystems' status and changes is increasing at the international and global level. Yet, sources for such data are limited and in many case it is not possible to compare data from different monitoring initiatives across space and time because of methodological differences. Apart from technical manuals, there is no comprehensive ... Read more

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