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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.