Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands, Mahesh K. Gaur; Victor R. Squires
Автор: Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux; Cary J. Mock Название: Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America ISBN: 9400779984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400779983 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18284.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this book, case studies are used to track the historical climate variations of specific regions across North America, using data from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Extreme weather events and more widespread phenomena are both covered in detail.
Описание: Steppes form one of the largest biomes. Drastic changes in steppe ecology, land use and livelihoods came with the emergence, and again with the collapse, of communist states. Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in nomadic pastoralism in the Soviet Union and China and in severely degraded steppe ecosystems. In Mongolia nomadic pastoralism persisted, but steppes degraded because of strongly increased livestock loads. After the Soviet collapse steppes regenerated on huge tracts of fallow land. Presently, new, restorative steppe land management schemes are applied. On top of all these changes come strong effects of climate change in the northern part of the steppe zone. This book gives an up-to-date overview of changes in ecology, climate and use of the entire Eurasian steppe area and their effects on livelihoods of steppe people. It integrates knowledge that so far was available only in a spectrum of locally used languages.
While most books examine only the classical aspects of hydrology, this three-volume set covers multiple aspects of hydrology. It examines new approaches, addresses growing concerns about hydrological and ecological connectivity, and considers the worldwide impact of climate change.
It also provides updated material on hydrological science and engineering, discussing recent developments as well as classic approaches. Published in three books, Fundamentals and Applications; Modeling, Climate Change, and Variability; and Environmental Hydrology and Water Management, the entire set consists of 87 chapters, and contains 29 chapters in each book.
The chapters in this book contain information on:
Climate change and hydrological hazards, hydrological modeling, and urban water systems, as well as climate change impacts on hydrology and water resources, climate change uncertainty, vulnerability, and adaption
Rainfall estimation and changes, hydrological changes of mangrove ecosystems, impact of the development of vegetation on flow conditions and flood hazards, urbanization impacts on runoff regime, and discretization in urban watersheds
Artificial neural network-based modeling of hydrologic processes, flow and sediment transport modeling in rivers, hybrid hydrological modeling, hydrologic modeling: stochastic processes, and time series analysis of hydrologic data
Dam risk and uncertainty, drought indices for drought risk assessment in a changing climate, hydrologic prediction and uncertainty quantification, uncertainty and risk of the PMP and PMF
Geostatistics applications in hydrology, GIS applications in a changing climate, GIS-based upland erosion mapping, regional flood frequency analysis, regionalization of hydrological extreme events, remote sensing data and information for hydrological monitoring and modeling
Application of copulas in hydrology, bankfull frequency of rivers, statistical parameters used for assessing hydrological regime, significance of statistical tests and persistence in hydrologic processes
Students, practitioners, policy makers, consultants and researchers can benefit from the use of this text.
Описание: This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Bruckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time.
Автор: Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux; Cary J. Mock Название: Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America ISBN: 9048128277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048128273 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19591.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Climatologists with an eye on the past have any number of sources for their work. This work examines specific regions across North America, using instrumental and documentary data from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It also looks at the role of weather station histories in complementing the instrumental record.
Автор: Tortajada Название: Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change ISBN: 9811019134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811019135 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas (Unites States and Mexico), Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Nepal, Mexico, Pakistan, Turkey and South Africa. They discuss the importance of infrastructure (mainly reservoirs) in adaptation strategies, how planning and management aspects should improve in response to changing climatic, economic, social and environmental situations and what the management, institutional and financial challenges would be for their implementation. Governance aspects (policies, institutions and decision making) and technical and knowledge limitations are a substantial part of the analyses. The case studies argue that reservoirs are essential to build resilience contributing to adaptation to climate variability and change. However, that for them to be effective, they need to be planned and managed within a governance framework that considers long-term perspectives and multi-sector and multi-level actor needs and perspectives.
Автор: Richard W. Battarbee; Fran?oise Gasse; Catherine E Название: Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa ISBN: 9048165938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048165933 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on two complementary time-scales, the Holocene (approximately the last 11,500 years) and the last glacial-interglacial cycle (approximately the last 130,000 years) to synthesize evidence of climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa.
Автор: James Salinger; Mannava VK Sivakumar; Raymond P. M Название: Increasing Climate Variability and Change ISBN: 9048168422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048168422 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reviews the latest assessments of climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on agriculture and forestry, and recommends appropriate adaptation strategies for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change.
Автор: Heinz Wanner; Martin Grosjean; Regine R?thlisberge Название: Climate Variability, Predictability and Climate Risks ISBN: 9048174333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048174331 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an integrated assessment of issues related to climate variability and change, predictability and risks. It details both the technical aspects of variability and abrupt climate change and the agricultural and economical impacts and consequences.
Автор: Kristie L. Ebi; Ian Burton; Glenn McGregor Название: Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change ISBN: 9048180287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048180288 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19589.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The primary purpose of this collection of is to communicate some of the basic ideas and concepts of the sub-fields of biometeorology as they relate to climate change. The volume explores ideas and provides a basis for a new vision for biometeorology.
Автор: Sally M. Kane; Gary W. Yohe Название: Societal Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change ISBN: 9048154944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048154944 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Changes in climate and climate variability have an effect on people`s behaviour around the world, and public institutions have an important part to play in influencing our ability to respond to and plan for climate risk.
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