Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change (PDF)
major challenges facing human society and its governments, climate change and
variability. The principal objective of the
book is to explore how agricultural production through the actions primarily of
farmers, including...
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This book deals with one of the
major challenges facing human society and its governments, climate change and
variability. The principal objective of the
book is to explore how agricultural production through the actions primarily of
farmers, including peasant farmers, adapt to these changing circumstances, what
the limitations of adaptation are, how the process of adaptation varies between
different territories (e.g. developed countries versus developing countries),
and what are or can be the most effective roles for actors other than the
farmers, including different levels of government and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) such as professional associations of farmers and community
organizations.
The
principal argument is threefold: 1) while there are significant differences
between territories and countries in terms of the capacity of farmers (and the
other actors) to engage in capacity building to be able to adapt effectively to
climate change and variability, 2) the critical roles are those played out by
the farmers themselves, but that 3) other actors can play an important role in
accompanying farmers in their adaptation process, providing relevant and
strategic information, counseling them and facilitating networking and meetings
when appropriate. This effectively means that without engaging in the local
adaptation processes governments can really only play effective roles by
working with other actors at the local and regional levels. When it occurs, it
can be very effective, but when it does not, farmers are left to their own
devices (and even then, many are able to use their own creativity and local
knowledge to survive and continue to develop).
Essentially
therefore, the secondary argument that is followed throughout the book is that
adaptation is essentially a social process that requires an understanding of
social processes and dynamics in each farming community and territory. It
involves an understanding, for instance, of information diffusion processes in
the different farming communities and territories, which provides a set of
tools to promote and facilitate the adoption process in the context of
adaptation to climate change and variability.
the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London. He was
progressively Assistant, Associate and Full Professor in Geography at the
University of Waterloo (1970 à 1990), then Full Professor in Geography the Université de Montréal (1990
à 2014), and is now Adjunct Profesor in Geography at the Université de Montréal
and also in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Planning, University
of Guelph. He is one of the international leaders in research on
urban/periurban agricultures (Canada, Western Europe and elsewhere, and he is
also a recognized leader in the domain of adaptation of human activities (and
especially agriculture) to climate change and variability, in local and
community development, and in the strategic planning for local and regional
development for and by citizens.
Mamadou Adama Sarr received his PhD from the Université Jean
Moulin Lyon III, France. His current affiliation is as a Researcher with the Centre
de Suivi Écologique, Dakar, Senegal. He was also a post-doctoral Fellow in the
Laboratory of Sustainable Development and Territorial Dynamics, Geography at
the Université de Montréal. His research interests are in climatology, climate
Change, regional climate modeling, climate variability and extreme, Geographic
Information Systems and Socio-Ecological Systems.
Kénel Delusca holds a Ph.D in geography from the Université de Montréal. He
is currently Adjunct Professor with the Institut des Technologies et des Études
Avancées d'Haïti (ISTEAH). His research interests are: climate change
vulnerability assessment, high-resolution climate scenario elaboration, crop
modeling, climate change policy, environmental evaluation, and multi criteria
analysis.
- 2016, 1st ed. 2016, 234 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Christopher R. Bryant, Mamadou A. Sarr, Kénel Délusca
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 3319313924
- ISBN-13: 9783319313924
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2016
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