Climate Change, Agriculture and Society: Approaches Toward Sustainability

Alam, Asraful, Rukhsana

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-05-21
  • 售價: $3,970
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$3,772
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 363
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031282531
  • ISBN-13: 9783031282539
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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 reductionin 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.

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本書討論全球暖化和氣候變化的新興背景,從地方到全球尺度的農業脆弱性和適應性。本書明確考慮了氣候變化、農業和生計的韌性,以及各種方法和尺度的多維度,並提供了基於自然科學到社會科學框架的研究和觀點。這本編輯作品包含了跨學科的章節,涵蓋了氣候變化、農業脆弱性、災害影響、生產效率、食品安全、生計韌性、土地退化、可持續性等方面的計劃和執行轉型、可持續性和適應性,包括哲學、變革和經濟學,以及自然科學。

本書探討了減少氣候變化對農業生產力的不利影響以及其在發展中和發達國家中的適應和減災的可持續發展目標。一些評估的挑戰包括土壤侵蝕、土地利用轉換、自然資源管理不善、作物生產力下降和經濟停滯。本書涵蓋了過去和現在食品生產和消費、農業、生計和氣候變化、災害風險管理和社會等重要問題。所有這些都面臨著持續的氣候變化和對生計可持續性的重大挑戰。本書分為五個大節,每個部分都包含一組章節,涉及氣候變化、農業和社會的特定問題:可持續性方法。本書旨在吸引對氣候變化、農業、生計和可持續性的不同方面感興趣的學生、研究人員、學者、政策制定者和其他好奇的讀者的注意,尤其是在地方到全球的背景下。

作者簡介

Asraful Alam is an Assistant Professor and HoD at the Department of Geography, Serampore Girls' College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He received his M.A. & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and Aliah University, Kolkata, India respectively and also completed PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS. Dr. Alam completes his Post Doctorate (PDF) from Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Earlier he was an Assistant Coordinator in PG Department of Geography, Calcutta Women's College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. His research interests include Climatology, Population Geography, Health Geography, Agricultural Geography and Remote Sensing & GIS and Developmental Studies. He has published five books (Three books in Springer) and four books under process from Taylor & Francis and Springer and more than 38 papers and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. He was a convener in the National Seminar on Self- reliance (Atmanirbhar), Sustainable Development and Environment 25th & 26th March 2022 Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) organized by Department of Geography, Serampore Girls' College. Dr. Alam has served as an Editorial Board Member in peer-reviewed International Journal of PLOS One and Frontiers in Geochemistry.
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.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Asraful Alam是印度西孟加拉邦加爾各答大學Serampore Girls' College地理學系的助理教授和系主任。他分別在印度阿利加爾穆斯林大學和加爾各答阿利亞大學獲得地理學碩士和博士學位,並完成了遙感和地理信息系統的研究生文憑。Alam博士在印度加爾各答大學地理學系完成了博士後研究。他曾在加爾各答大學加爾各答女子學院地理學研究生部門擔任助理協調員。他的研究興趣包括氣候學、人口地理學、健康地理學、農業地理學、遙感和地理信息系統以及發展研究。他已出版了五本書(其中三本在Springer出版),並有四本書正在由Taylor & Francis和Springer出版社進行中,此外還在同行評審期刊和編輯的書籍中發表了超過38篇論文和專書章節。他曾擔任印度社會科學研究委員會贊助的國家研討會《自力更生、可持續發展和環境》的召集人,該研討會由Serampore Girls' College地理學系組織。Alam博士曾擔任同行評審的國際期刊PLOS One和Frontiers in Geochemistry的編輯委員會成員。

Rukhsana目前在加爾各答的阿利亞大學地理學系擔任助理教授。她在阿利加爾穆斯林大學獲得地理學博士學位。Rukhsana博士在國內外知名期刊上發表了40多篇研究論文和四本書籍。她還發表了多篇研究論文,並獲得國際青年地理學家獎。她曾參加2014年馬來西亞的第25屆國際測量師聯合會國際大會和2018年泰國曼谷的ICGGS-2018。她指導了4名博士生。她的研究興趣包括農業、城市人口、地理環境和發展。她指導了三位學者獲得地理學博士學位。Rukhsana博士成功完成了一個由印度社會科學研究委員會贊助的重大研究項目,並正在進行另一個項目。她曾擔任阿利亞大學地理學系的系主任。