Climate Change, Agriculture and Society by Asraful Alam, Rukhsana
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Description 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.
Author Biography
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.
Details ISBN 3031282507 ISBN-13 9783031282508 Title Climate Change, Agriculture and Society Author Asraful Alam, Rukhsana Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 363 Edition 1st Publisher Springer International Publishing AG GE_Item_ID:159977636; About Us
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