Climate change vis-à-vis agriculture: Indian and global view—implications, abatement, adaptation and trade-off

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-88
Author(s):  
Sumit Chakravarty ◽  
Anju Puri ◽  
Gopal Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Global View

scholarly journals Contrasting capabilities of two ungulate species to cope with extremes of aridity

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Boyers ◽  
Francesca Parrini ◽  
Norman Owen-Smith ◽  
Barend F. N. Erasmus ◽  
Robyn S. Hetem
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High Water ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Body Temperatures ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Ambient Temperatures ◽  
Mammalian Herbivores ◽  
Dry Seasons ◽  
Connochaetes Taurinus

AbstractSouthern Africa is expected to experience increased frequency and intensity of droughts through climate change, which will adversely affect mammalian herbivores. Using bio-loggers, we tested the expectation that wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), a grazer with high water-dependence, would be more sensitive to drought conditions than the arid-adapted gemsbok (Oryx gazella gazella). The study, conducted in the Kalahari, encompassed two hot-dry seasons with similar ambient temperatures but differing rainfall patterns during the preceding wet season. In the drier year both ungulates selected similar cooler microclimates, but wildebeest travelled larger distances than gemsbok, presumably in search of water. Body temperatures in both species reached lower daily minimums and higher daily maximums in the drier season but daily fluctuations were wider in wildebeest than in gemsbok. Lower daily minimum body temperatures displayed by wildebeest suggest that wildebeest were under greater nutritional stress than gemsbok. Moving large distances when water is scarce may have compromised the energy balance of the water dependent wildebeest, a trade-off likely to be exacerbated with future climate change.

Climate change: the global view

Physics World ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
André Lebeau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global View

Forest and climate change – a global view and local cases

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
M. Pietrzykowski ◽  
B. Woś ◽  
J. Likus-Cieślik ◽  
B. Świątek ◽  
M. Pająk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global View

scholarly journals Determinants of Belief – And Unbelief – In Climate Change

2022 ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
David Leiser ◽  
Pascal Wagner-Egger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Clear Majority

AbstractClimate change is a most serious challenge. Committing the needed resources requires that a clear majority of citizens approves the appropriate policies, since committing resources necessarily involve a trade-off with other expenses. However, there are distinct groups of people who remain in denial about the realities of climatic change. This chapter presents a range of psychological and social phenomena that together explain the phenomena that lead to denial.

scholarly journals Valuation of Viticultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Vineyards: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Prioritize Trade-Offs Perceived by Citizens

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Verónica Farreras ◽  
Laura Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discrete Choice Experiment ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Chemical Fertilizers ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Conservation Of Biodiversity

On a climate change scenario, a discrete choice experiment was applied to elicit the trade-off values for three environmental impacts of current viticultural management practices in vineyards of Mendoza, Argentina. Water availability for other uses was found to be the most concerning topic for the population, followed by use of chemical fertilizers and then by use and conservation of biodiversity. An increase of one percentage point in water availability was estimated to add each citizen on average 13.05 Argentinean pesos – 0.74 US dollars – per year in terms of increased welfare, a figure equivalent to the welfare drop a citizen would experience after an increase of 1.45 percentage points in the use of chemical fertilizers annually per hectare, or a decrease of 2.69 percentage points in the use and conservation of biodiversity. These trade-off values may help policy makers, planners, regional managers, and ecologists to take social preferences into account in setting resource allocation priorities intended to support viticulture. This study approach provides a framework that could guide similar assessments in other regions.

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