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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The global food security and sustainable agriculture are the key challenges before the scientific community in the present era of enhanced climate variability, rapidly rising population and dwindling resources. No part of the world is immune from meteorological extremes of one sort or another posing threat to the food security. Agrometeorology has to make most efficient use of the opportunities ... Leer más

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  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

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    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Leer más

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  • Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture

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  • The Impacts of Climate Variability on Forests

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    Series Libro 74 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997. For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the Earth System on the basis of shifts in extreme climatic conditions, rather than simply changes in mean ... Leer más

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