Climate variability, modeling tools and agricultural decision-making / Angel Utset, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Utset Suastegui, Angel.

Series:

Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction.

Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Risk management--Europe.

Climatic changes.

Agriculture--Europe--Decision making.

Agriculture.

Europe--Climate.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New policies must be adopted under climate change conditions to secure sustainability of agricultural crop production. Despite the proved reliability of present climate and crop-growth modelling tools for climate risk assessments, they have been not been noticeably applied for supporting agricultural decision-making in practice. The EU proposal AGRIDEMA provided initial contacts and collaborations between 'developers' and potential 'users', basically researchers and experts at agricultural services. This book reviews the AGRIDEMA results. The book is designed to introduce the currently-available climate and crop-growth models, to summarise their potentialities as tools to provide reliable Climate-Change adaptation options in agriculture and to show several examples of the combined use such tools in specific climate-change agricultural risks in several countries.

Contents:

""Climate Variability, Modeling Tools and Agricultural Decision-Making""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I. Policies and Tools""; ""Current Climate Forecasting as a Helping Tool for Agricultural Decision Making""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. CLIPS Surveys""; ""3. Climate Forecasts: Needs, Advances, Case Studies, Challenges""; ""4. Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""Droughts as a Climatic Variability: Actions to Reduce Drought Impacts""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Objectives""; ""3. Developments of Actions""; ""4. Direct Proactive Actions""

""5. Direct Reactive Actions""""6. Supplementary or Indirect Support Actions""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Understanding the Interactions between Agricultural Production and Climate Variability""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Results""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""ADAGIO - Adaptation of Agriculture in European Regions at Environmental Risk under Climate Change""; ""Abstract""; ""ADAGIO Objective and Project Organization""; ""ADAGIO Forum""; ""Invitation""

""WSSTP Vision on the European Agriculture and Water Issues as the Response to Climate-Change Challenge""""Abstract""; ""Internal European Water Issues""; ""External Water Challenges""; ""Autonomous Changes""; ""Role of the Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WSSTP)""; ""Water Vision""; ""How the Vision Can Be Realized - Technological Perspective""; ""Closing Observation""; ""Land-Air Parameterisation Scheme (LAPS): A Tool for Use in Agrometeorological Modelling""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Structure of the Scheme""

""3. Aerodynamic Resistances Inside and over Canopies""""Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""The ENSEMBLES Climate Change Project""; ""What Is the ENSEMBLES Climate Change Project?""; ""The Relevance of the ENSEMBLES Project to Agricultural Research""; ""Crop Models in the ENSEMBLES Project: Research Activities and Result""; ""Summary of Project Progress""; ""Project Links, Contacts and Acknowledgement""; ""Appendix 1. Summary of ENSEMBLES Model Runs by Research Theme""; ""Appendix 2. Case Study: The DISAT Crop Yield Model as Developed in ENSEMBLES""; ""References""

""Downscaled Climate Change Scenarios for Spain""""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Observed Trends of Temperature and Precipitation over Spain""; ""Projections from Global Models over Spain""; ""Downscaled Projections over Spain""; ""Uncertainties in Generation of Downscaled Climate Change Projections""; ""Recommendations for Usage of Downscaled Climate Change Projections""; ""References""; ""Using Crop Modelling as Support for Agricultural Decision-Making under Variable Climate Conditions""; ""Abstract""; ""Agricultural-Impact Models""; ""Problems and Uncertinties of Model Application""

""The Role of Uncertainties in Study Results of Crop Model Applications""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references index.

ISBN:

1-60876-791-4

OCLC:

923654276