Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability

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Synopsis
This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems. It includes mitigation techniques such as use of bioenergy crops, fertilizer and manure management, conservation tillage, crop rotations, cover crops and cropping intensity, irrigation, erosion control, management of drained wetlands, lime amendments, residue management, biochar and biotechnology. It also includesManagement of GHG emissionsCrop models as decision support toolsQTL analysisCrop water productivityImpacts of drought on cereal cropsSilvopastoral systemsChanging climate impact on wheat-based cropping systems of South AsiaPhosphorous dynamics under changing climateRole of bioinformatics The focus of the book is climate change mitigation to enhance sustainability in agriculture. We present various kinds of mitigation options, ways to minimize GHG emissions and better use of the latest techniques in conservation and environmental-sustainability.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9783319320595
Related ISBNs:
9783319320571
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Springer International Publishing, Cham
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Technology, Earth Sciences
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Bookshare Staff
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