The Role of Agrometeorology in the Alleviation of Natural Disasters
Author | : René A. Gommes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Meteorology, Agricultural |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : René A. Gommes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Meteorology, Agricultural |
ISBN | : |
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264752781 |
Natural hazard-induced disasters (NHID), such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and animal pests and diseases have significant, widespread and long-lasting impacts on agricultural sectors around the world. Drawing from seven case studies, this joint OECD-FAO report argues for a new approach to building resilience to NHID in agriculture.
Author | : Mannava VK Sivakumar |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2005-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540283072 |
Agricultural production is highly sensitive to weather and climate-related disasters such as drought, storm and flood. While it is not possible to prevent the occurrence of natural disasters, the resultant disastrous effects can be reduced mitigated through proper planning and effective preparation. This book, based on a gathering of experts in Beijing, discusses ways to reduce the vulnerability of agriculture to disaster and extreme events, both by accurate and timely warning, and by impact-reducing countermeasures.
Author | : Haripada P. Das |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Crops and climate |
ISBN | : 9789381075715 |
Author | : H.P. Das |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780415621120 |
Despite the current technological advancement, agriculture is still a vital source of livelihood. It is essentially dependent on weather and climate, and adversely affected by extreme events in this respect. Over the past few decades, extreme events such as droughts, floods, storms, tropical cyclones and forest fires have destroyed economic and social infrastructure and at the same time endangered food security. The agricultural sector is affected through the impact on water resources, damage to crops, rangelands and forests, due to incidence of droughts, locust plagues and wildland fires. While natural hazards may not be avoided, the integration of risk assessment and early warnings, with prevention and mitigation measures, can prevent them from becoming disasters. Improved forecast accuracy and mroe focused information on the location, intensity and duration of climate extremes could underpin efforts to implement more effective risk management strategies. This book, based on state of the art knowledge on the science and application of agricultural meteorology needed to better cope with extreme climate events, should be of interest to all organizations and agencies engaged in planning disaster reduction strategies and mitigation of extreme events.
Author | : Nabansu Chattopadhyay |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031510836 |
Author | : Latief Ahmad |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2023-12-19 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9819948630 |
The monograph focuses on agricultural meteorology and climate change and its impacts on different crops. Comprising of chapters from experts, the book discusses and provides first-hand information to the long term shifts in weather patterns and temperature impacting soil, water and crops. Each chapter focuses in detail on the impact of plant- water – soil nexus and climate change on agriculture and food security. Covering the basic concepts about the temperature, pressure and humidity correlation with the increased demands of food, the book explores in detail the impact of adverse climatic conditions like drought, floods, increasing levels of carbon dioxide emissions and other simultaneous effects like soil fertility depletion on the cropping systems and overall crop productivity. The book touches the challenges of climate change, adaptive methods, mitigation strategies, with careful explanation of governance, plans and policies required to provide guidelines to stake holders so they can best prepare for the negative climate change impacts. While touching the agricultural challenges faced globally due to climate change, the book serves as a reference book for students, researchers and policy makers, involved in horticulture, agriculture and environmental sciences and climate change.
Author | : Mannava VK Sivakumar |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2008-01-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540727469 |
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.
Author | : Kees Stigter |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1042 |
Release | : 2010-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540746986 |
Farmers Agricultural policymakers Environmentalists
Author | : Alok Kumar Patra |
Publisher | : New India Publishing Agency |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9385516248 |
Weather and climate is a natural resource which is considered as a basic input in agricultural planning. It affects all the agricultural activities directly or indirectly. Agrometeorology is primarily concerned with the interactions among meteorological, hydrological and pedological factors that influence production systems in agriculture and allied sectors like horticulture, animal husbandry, fishery, forestry, etc. Thus the role of an agrometeorologist is to define all these interactions, to correlate physical environments with biological responses and apply the relevant meteorological skills to help farmers for exploiting weather conditions and improve agricultural production both in quality and quantity. In this backdrop, agrometeorology has been recommended as a core subject in the curriculum of B. Sc. (Agriculture), B. Sc. (Horticulture) and B. Sc. (Forestry) courses of the agricultural universities. Keeping this in view, this book has been written for the undergraduate students. The common people, who watch weather phenomenon and take an interest in it, would also find it worth reading. This book is primarily based on the syllabus of the course ‘Agricultural Meteorology’ meant for under graduate students of agriculture, horticulture and forestry. This book has been divided into twenty three chapters covering all aspects of agrometeorology. Concepts, definition, importance and scope, history and future needs of agrometeorology are described in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 details the basic information of atmosphere. Chapter 3 to chapter 13 include the weather parameters like radiation, temperature, humidity, evaporation, fog and dew, pressure, wind, clouds, monsoon and precipitation and their importance in agriculture. Applied aspects of meteorology like climatic hazards, agroclimatic classification, micrometeorology of crops, weather in relation to crop pests and diseases, weather in relation to animal production, climate change, weather forecasting, remote sensing and crop simulation modelling are discussed in Chapter 14 to chapter 22. Chapter 23 describes the features of an agrometeorological observatory.