Overview
Addresses contemporary agricultural resilience to various climate change issues
Develops novel approaches for sustainability with environmentally sound practices
Discusses methodological and innovative approaches from local to global perspectives/levels
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global warming and Climate Change: Vulnerability in Agricultural Sectors
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Extreme Climatic Events: Impacts and Adaptation Issues in Agrarian Environment
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Agriculture Under Changing Climate
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Farmers Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategy
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Sustainable Adaptive Options to Combat Global Warming and Climate Change
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About this book
This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale. Climate change, resilience in relation to agriculture and livelihoods and multi-dimensionality of various approaches are clearly taken into account by providing studies and perspectives on various methods and scales based on natural science to social science frameworks. This edited work contains chapters that are interdisciplinary, covering climate change, agriculture vulnerability, disaster impact, productivity efficiency, food security, livelihood resilience, land degradation, sustainability, in terms of plan and perform for transformation, sustainability and adaptation, including philosophy, change and economics, as well as the natural sciences.
This book addresses the sustainable development goals to reduce the adverse impacts on agricultural productivity brought on by climate change and its adaptation and disaster risk reduction in developing and developed nations. Some of the assessed challenges include soil erosion, land use conversion, natural resource mismanagement, crop productivity decline and economic stagnation. This book covers important issues in the production and consumption of food in the past and present periods, agriculture, livelihood, and climate change, disaster risk management and society. All of these are under the threat of ongoing climate change and significant challenges to livelihood sustainability. The book is arranged into five broad sections: each part will cover a set of chapters dealing with a particular issue of the climate change, agriculture and society: approach toward sustainability. This book aims to attract attention of students, researchers, academician, policymakers and other inquisitive readers interested in different aspects of climate change, agriculture, livelihood and sustainability, particularly at local to global context.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rukhsana is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in Department of Geography at Aliah University, Kolkata. She obtained her doctoral degree in Geography from Aligarh Muslim University. Dr. Rukhsana has published more than 40 research papers in reputed journals and four books at national and international levels. Dr. Rukhsana has presented a number of research papers and she was also conferred with the International Young Geographer Award. She has attended XXV FIG International Congress 2014, Malaysia, and ICGGS-2018, Bangkok, Thailand. She has supervised 4 PhD students. Her research interests include agriculture, urban population, environment and development in geography. She has supervised three scholars leading to the award of Ph.D. degrees in Geography. Dr. Rukhsana has successfully completed one major research project and one is ongoing sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi. She has been the Head of the Department of Geography at Aliah University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change, Agriculture and Society
Book Subtitle: Approaches Toward Sustainability
Editors: Asraful Alam, Rukhsana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28251-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28250-8Published: 20 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28253-9Due: 03 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28251-5Published: 19 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 363
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate, general, Agriculture, Sustainable Development, Ecology, Food Science, Geography, general