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Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture
Based on an International Workshop held in New Delhi, India, this work should be of interest to all organizations and agencies interested in improved risk management in agriculture. In many parts of the world, weather and climate are one of the biggest production risks and uncertainty factors impacting on agricultural systems performance and management. Both structural and non-structural measures can be used to reduce the impacts of the variability (including extremes) of climate resources on crop production.
Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Phenology is the study of plant and animal life cycle events, which are triggered by environmental changes, especially temperature. Wide ranges of phenomena are included, from first openings of leaf and flower buds, to insect hatchings and return of birds. Each one gives a ready measure of the environment as viewed by the associated organism. Thus, phenological events are ideal indicators of the impact of local and global changes in weather and climate on the earth's biosphere. Assessing our changing world is a complex task that requires close cooperation from experts in biology, climatology, ecology, geography, oceanography, remote sensing and other areas. This book is a synthesis of current phenological knowledge, designed as a primer on the field for global change and general scientists, students and interested members of the public. With contributions from a diverse group of over fifty phenological experts, covering data collection, current research, methods and applications, it demonstrates the accomplishments and potential of phenology as an integrative environmental science.
Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe
Selected papers from the International Conference "Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Science and Society in South-Eastern Europe" held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Covers changes in climate, land use, carbon and water cycles, air quality, etc.
Megatrends in Global Interaction
We inhabit an increasingly interconnected world, yet too often policymakers and advisors view each issue in a vacuum, focusing primarily on short-term impacts. All of us - policymakers, citizens, and local and global communities - must begin to consider how the major trends that shape our world are likely to develop, and how they will intersect and influence one another. This volume is designed to explore and discuss correlations between these global trends, or megatrends: Global Governance, Demographic Change and Migration, Energy and Natural Resources, Global Security, Biodiversity, and Economic Globalization. The book's primary focus is to provide a qualitative overview of the trends, and to analyze their intersections and interdependencies in the 21st century. The authors hope it will help define some of the complex challenges and exciting opportunities to shaping a world of sustainable economies and societies.
(Ne)prilagojeni
The volume ('(Un)adapted') contains twenty-one chapters dealing with natural disasters. The chapters describe various research findings and examples of the use of modern technologies in cases of natural disasters. The volume covers various topics such as earthquakes, floods, avalanches, droughts, GIS support, and web applications.
COST Action 725
This book gives an excellent insight into the national and international European phenological networks with contributions from 30 European countries and from the International Phenological Gardens.
Drought: Research and Science-Policy Interfacing
Droughts occur in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, but also in humid areas, and can develop over short periods (flash drought) or longer periods (seasons/decades). Even though progress has been made, it remains difficult to adequately characterize, monitor, forecast and manage droughts, due to their multi-faceted nature.Usually, drought does
Pokrajina v visoki ločljivosti
Knjiga Pokrajina v visoki ločljivosti je že 14. v zbirki GIS v Sloveniji. Tudi namen te knjige je predstaviti najrazličnejša spoznanja raziskovalcev v svetu geografskih informacijskih sistemov na območju Slovenije v zadnjih letih. Zmogljiva geoinformacijska orodja in natančni digitalni podatki omogočajo raziskave raznih procesov in pojavov z veliko natančnostjo. Zato lahko upravičeno trdimo, da pokrajino in njene sestavne elemente raziskujemo v visoki ločljivosti. V knjigi so nazorno prikazani rezultati projektov in izsledki raziskav s področij, kot so: seizmologija, geomorfologija, naravne nesreče, varovanje okolja, geografija, geodezija, arheologija, promet, kmetijstvo, daljinsko zaznavanje in druga. Bralci bodo v knjigi našli nekatere novosti v uporabnosti geografskih informacijskih sistemov, hkrati pa se bodo lahko seznanili tudi z zanimivi rezultati raziskovalnega dela na številnih področjih.
Domači odzivi na globalne izzive
V knjigi je štirinajst poglavij s področja naravnih nesreč. V poglavjih so opisana raziskovalna spoznanja ter primeri uporabe sodobnih tehnologij v primeru naravnih nesreč, s poudarkom na domačih odzivih na globalne izzive. Knjiga vsebuje različne teme, kot so na primer potresi, suše, vročinski valovi, poplave, snežni plazovi ter odzivanje in komuniciranje v primeru naravnih nesreč.
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