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Climate Change, Agriculture Adaptation, and Sustainability by Mannava Sivakumar is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Climate Change, Agriculture Adaptation, and Sustainability about?

Climate change is widely accepted as the single most pressing issue facing society on a global basis due to the increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. GHG emissions growth between 2000 and 2010 has been larger than in the previous three decades. Hence, each of the past 3 decades has been successively warmer than the preceding decades since 1850. Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in the climate system. Agriculture is one of the important economic sectors of the global society and climate change/ variability is having a profound influence on the agroecosystems, posing serious threats to food security, human health, and protection of the environment. Of the total annual crop losses in world agriculture, many are due to increasing frequency and magnitude of weather and climate extremes such as droughts, flash floods, untimely rains, frost, hail, and severe storms. Agricultural impacts from natural events and disasters most commonly include alteration of ecosystems, contamination of water bodies, loss of harvest or livestock, increased susceptibility to disease, and destruction of irrigation systems and other agricultural infrastructures.

Author

Mannava Sivakumar

Publisher

Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811609022

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Engineering