Описание: This book summarizes studies on climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience in Africa (CECAR-Africa), a collaboration with the goal of creating an integrated resilience enhancement strategy as a potential model for semi-arid regions across Sub-Saharan Africa by combining climate change and ecosystem change research. The case studies were conducted at multiple scales – local, national, and regional – and incorporate the natural sciences, social sciences and engineering in a transdisciplinary manner while also integrating the needs of local communities. The book chiefly addresses three thematic areas, namely: Forecast and assessment of climate change impacts on agro-ecosystems; Risk assessment of extreme weather hazards and development of adaptive resource management methods; and Implementing capacity development programs for local leaders and practitioners. The collaborative nature of the project and the use of various quantitative and qualitative research techniques and methods – such as field surveys, questionnaires, focus group discussions, land use and cover change analysis, and climate downscaled modeling – make the book truly unique. Especially at a time when both long-term climate change and short-term extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are worsening, this book offers potential approaches to developing an integrated framework for assessing the local ability to cope with floods and droughts, and for enhancing the resilience of farming communities in developing countries, which are the most vulnerable to these changes and extreme weather events. As such, it will be of interest to a wider audience, including academics, professionals, and government officials alike.
Автор: Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger, Taisir Subhi Yamin Название: Integrating Sustainable Development into the Curriculum ISBN: 1787699420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787699427 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 15854.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the value of institutions of higher education in leading the way on the topic of sustainability education by ensuring that it is well entrenched in the curriculum as well as everyday practice and lifestyles.
Автор: Fell, Hans-Josef Название: Global Cooling ISBN: 0415620775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415620772 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 13779.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Mohamed Behnassi; Margaret Syomiti Muteng`e; Gopic Название: Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change ISBN: 9402403442 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402403442 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Part I Agriculture and Climate Change: A Multidimensional Perspective.- 1 Mitigation-Adaptation Nexus for Sustainability: Some Important Cross-cutting and Emerging Considerations.- 2 Climate Change Impacts in the Mena Region: Review of Adaptation and Mitigation Potential and Practices.- 3 Mainstreaming Agriculture for Climate Change Mitigation.- 4 Learning About Climate Change: A Case Study of Grain Growers in Eastern Australia.- 5 Economic Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture in SAT India: An Empirical Analysis of Impacts in Andhra Pradesh Using Ricardian Approach.- 6 Vulnerability to Climate Change in Semi-Arid Tropics of India: Scouting for Holistic Approach.- 7 Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Implications for Agricultural Extension and Education.- Part II Adapting Agriculture to Climate Risks: Selected Successful Practices.- 8 Economic Impact of Climate Change on Tunisian Agriculture: The Case of Wheat.- 9 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Options in Greek Dairy Sheep Farming: A Multi-Objective Programming Approach.- 10 Adaptation Strategies of Citrus and Tomato Farmers Towards the Effect of Climate Change in Nigeria.- 11 Ex-ante Impact Assessment of 'Stay-Green' Drought Tolerant Sorghum Cultivar under Future Climate Scenarios: Integrated Modeling approach.- Part III Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Relevant Adaptation Practices.- 12 Impact of Climate Changes on Water Resources in Algeria.- 13 Droughtness of Different Wheat Species (Triticum L.).- 14 Coping Climate Change Through Water Harvesting Techniques for Sustainable Agriculture.- Part IV Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries and Fishery-Based Livelihoods.- 15 Climate Change and Biotechnology: Toolkit for Food Fish Security.- 16 Climate Change and Fisheries in Chile.- 17 Livelihoods of Coastal Communities in Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park, Tanzania.- 18 Livelihood Strategy in Indonesian Coastal Villages: Case Study on Seaweed Farming in Laikang Bay, South Sulawesi Province.- 19 Monosex Fish Production in Fisheries Management and its Potentials for Catfish Aquaculture in Nigeria.- 20 Stock Assessment of Bogue, Boops from the Egyptian Mediterranean Waters.- Postface.- Notes on Contributors.
Описание: Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics. Food security ranks high on the science, policy and development agendas. However, most research linking global change and food systems examines the impact of climate change on agricultural production, or the impact of agriculture on land use, pollution and biodiversity, overlooking interactions with other aspects of the food system – such as food processing, packaging, transportation and consumption and employment derived from these activities. This book demonstrates that new threats to food security which arise from environmental change require more than simply a focus on agricultural practices – what is needed is an integrated food system approach. The authors point out that the process of adapting food systems to global environmental change is not simply a search for technological solutions to increase agricultural yields. Tradeoffs across multiple scales among food system outcomes are a prevalent feature of globalized food systems. Within food systems, there are key underexplored areas that are both sensitive to environmental change and crucial to understanding its implications for food security and adaptation strategies. The authors assert that technical prescriptions alone will not efficiently manage the food security challenge. This book is their contribution to a new paradigm, which addresses food systems holistically by engaging researchers in multiple disciplines to understand the causes and drivers of vulnerability.
Описание: Renewable energy in the MENA region: Key challenges and lessons learned.- Oil Prices and Electricity Firms: Robust Evidence from the U.S. Economy during the COVID-19 Era.- Challenges of renewable energy for sustainable development: Post-Coronavirus' economic recovery plan.- The impact of regulations, energy prices and economic activity on the Indian electric power consumption: A Kalman filter application.- Smart Grids as a step toward global warming reduction: A comparative analysis between the United States, China and Japan.- Towards a Better Understanding of the Factors Explaining the Behavior of Green Energy Adoption.- The Role of Financial Development for Access to Electricity.- The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Renewable Energy and Commodities Markets.- The Impact of COVID-19 on Renewable Energy and Commodity Markets.
Автор: Haj-amor, Zied (national Engineering School Of Sfax, Tunisia) Kim, Dong-gill (hawassa University, Ethiopia) Bouri, Salem (national Engineering School Название: Sustainable agriculture ISBN: 1032518456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032518459 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 15312.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ever-increasing population growth, combined with ongoing climate change signals that agriculture will face great challenges in ensuring global food security by 2050. Additionally, climate change-driven variations in mean sea level, wave conditions, storm surge, droughts, and river flows could have serious effects on agriculture and other sectors. Considering these factors and the extremely high value and necessity of agriculture worldwide, effective adaptation measures underpinned by reliable climate change impact assessments are essential to conserve soil and water resources and ensure food security. Sustainable Agriculture: Adaptation Strategies to Address Climate Change by 2050 provides a thorough examination of these issues, and presents in-depth analysis, practical case studies, and numerous examples of adaptation options throughout for various regions of the world.Features:Presents up-to-date, scientifically robust information on climate change projections in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and AustraliaProvides pathways to sustainable agricultural options rather than just defining the climate change issueIncludes case studies and practical examples throughout the worldPresents a framework by which policymakers can begin implementing strategies for improving agricultural productivity
Описание: Chapter 1. Achieving Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Change: Clash of the Titans or Alignment of the Stars?.- Chapter 2. Climate Change, Hunger and Food Security in Asia with special reference to Sri Lanka: Can the SDGs be Achieved by 2030?.- Chapter 3. The Status of Climate Variability and Food Accessibility: A Case of Households in Gauteng Province, South Africa.- Chapter 4. Climate resilient mariculture technologies for food and nutritional security.- Chapter 5. Climate change and adaptation: Recommendations for agriculture sector.- Chapter 6. Integrated Farming Systems: Climate Resilient Sustainable Food Production System in the Indian Himalayan Region.- Chapter 7. Adaptation mechanism of methylotrophic bacteria to drought condition and its strategies in mitigating plant stress caused by climate change.- Chapter 8. Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Marine Fisheries.- Chapter 9. Increasing Synergies between Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Energy Policy.- Chapter 10. Ensuring Domestic Water Security for Cities under Rapid Urbanisation and Climate Change Risks.- Chapter 11. Improving Water Productivity for Smallholder Rice Farmers in the Upper West Region of Ghana: A Review of Sustainable Approaches.- Chapter 12. Synergies between climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem function and services, indirect drivers of change and human well-being in forests.- Chapter 13. Climate change projections of current and future distributions of the endemic Loris lydekkerianus (Lorinae) in peninsular India.- Chapter 14. Climate Change, Air Pollution and SDG 3: An Indian Perspective.- Chapter 15. Empowerment of fisherwomen through marine farming.
Описание: Award-winning author David J. Park argues that the battle against global warming is also a fight for media reform. With his new book Media Reform and the Climate Emergency: Rethinking Communication in the Struggle for a Sustainable World, he critically examines how advertising, the digital infrastructure, and journalism advance the climate emergency and lays out a path of reform to help create a more sustainable world. The production and consumption of goods and services within consumer societies lead to unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions, and Park finds that much of mass communication is either dependent upon or closely tied to the success of this social organization. As a result, he suggests successful environmental movements creatively dismantle or reform institutional infrastructures that extend the planetary global warming crisis and the unsustainable consumption of nature.
Communication policies and industries are part of these infrastructures. Advertising evolved to propel a new consumer society that would encourage the over-consumption of goods and services with harmful and unsustainable production processes. Our digital infrastructure is largely premised upon the surveillance of online consumer habits and preferences, with the goal to create individualized messages to more effectively persuade people to increase their consumption habits. Much of commercial journalism resists the drastic and immediate regulatory changes necessary to address the worst aspects of this crisis. This is because so many of the needed changes challenge the media's source of income, their libertarian philosophy, and the general status quo, which is preferred by elites. Bound to foster conversations among scholars, activists, politicians, and those who work in the communication industries, this book rethinks mass communication and highlights how immediate reform is needed in the struggle for a sustainable planet.
Описание: This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on “Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development” held during 20–21 May 2015 and jointly organized by the Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and the Centre for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany; and the international conference “Climate Change and Food Security – the Global and Indian Contexts,” jointly hosted by the CEENR, ISEC and the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, on 18–19 February 2015. The selected papers presented in this book portray a broad range of international research efforts aimed at developing a deeper understanding of human-environment systems but also at translating scientific knowledge into political and societal solutions and responses to the challenge of climate change.
The third decade of the 21st century brings new and expansive global sustainability challenges. Managers, policymakers, academics, citizens, and consumers will have to make seemingly contradictory decisions to accelerate demand, and at the same time promote savings. For this reason, it is necessary to clarify that it is not a process of recovery but of regeneration, adaptation and reprioritization.
Regenerative and Sustainable Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean: Collective action for a region with a better tomorrow offers a systematic review of past efforts to recover from global crises providing an analysis of the sustainable development challenges faced by Latin America and the Caribbean. Featuring contributions from researchers in seven different Latin American and Caribbean countries, this volume reflects primary data perspectives from government, business, academe and civil society leaders in each specific country.
Regenerative and Sustainable Futures for Latin America and the Caribbean explores how to build sustainable futures for Latin America and the Caribbean, presents recommendations for policy and decision-makers to thrive sustainable futures for Latin America and the Caribbean and reflects on the value of collective action for a region that deserves a better tomorrow.
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