Overview

"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."

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Author:   Angel Utset
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.992kg
ISBN:  

9781606927038

ISBN 10:   1606927035
Pages:   361
Publication Date:   29 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Current climate forecasting as a helping tool for agricultural decision making; Droughts as a climatic variability. Actions to reduce drought impacts; understanding the interactions between agricultural production and climate variability; ADAGIO - Adaptation of agriculture in European regions at environmental risk under climate change; WSSTP Vision on the European agriculture and water issues as the response to climate-change challenge; Land-air parameterisation scheme (LAPS): A tool for use in agrometeorological modeling; The ENSEMBLES climate change project Downscaled Climate Change Scenarios for Spain; Using crop modeling as support for agricultural decision-making under variable climate conditions; Modeling water management strategies using the SWAP/WOFOST model; Use of DSSAT models for climate change impact assessment: Calibration and validation of CERES-Wheat and CERES-Maize in spain; Opportunities and challenges of using modeling tools for agricultural decision-making under climate change conditions; Modeling climate change impacts on crop growth and management in Germany; Modeling of maize production and the impact of climate change on maize yields in Croatia; Consequences of climate change on irrigation water requirements in southern Spain; Adaptations of irrigated cropping systems of Southern Italy as affected by climate change at field/farm scale; Climate Change and agricultural risk in Hungary; Assessment of the impact of climate change and adaptation on potato production in Egypt; Vineyard full irrigation requirements under climate change scenarios for Ebro valley, Spain; Climate variability and change over the Balkan Peninsula and related impacts on sunflower; Optimizing irrigation water management on the global change context in a Spanish Mediterranean region; Simulating Plant Growth, Soil-Water and Nitrogen Dynamics in Maize Crop in Brazil using DSSAT Model; Potential Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Soils Simulated by Roth-C Model; Simulation of crop yield near hedgerows under aspects of a changing climate. An Austrian attempt; Introduction of crop modeling tools into Serbian crop production: Calibration and validation of models; Index.

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