Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Sivakumar, Mannava VK. (Editor ), Motha, Raymond P. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0
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505 0 |a Extreme 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. 
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