scholarly journals Traditional Selection Criteria of Ogaden Cattle in Pastoral and Agro Pastoral Production Systems and Its Implication to Resilience of the Breed in the Face of Climate Change in the Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 355-366
Author(s):  
Yesihak Yusuf Mummed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems ◽  
Ogaden Cattle

Planning for the Future in the Face of Climate Change

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Christopher Crockett ◽  
Paul Kohl ◽  
Julia Rockwell ◽  
Teresa DiGenova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Health Infrastructure ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Challenges

There will be more pandemics. A pandemic might come from an old, familiar foe such as influenza or might emerge from a new source—a zoonosis that makes its way into humans, perhaps. The epilogue asks how the world will confront pandemics in the future. It is likely that patterns established long ago will re-emerge. But how will new challenges, like climate change, affect future pandemics and our ability to respond? Will lessons learned from the past help with plans for the future? One thing is clear: in the face of a serious pandemic much of the developing world’s public health infrastructure will be woefully overburdened. This must be addressed.

Estimation of tsetse challenge and its relationship with trypanosomosis incidence in cattle kept under pastoral production systems in Kenya

2008 ◽  
Vol 155 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bett ◽  
P. Irungu ◽  
S.O. Nyamwaro ◽  
G. Murilla ◽  
P. Kitala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

Phosphorus leaching from pastures can be an environmental risk and even a significant fertiliser expense

2006 ◽  
pp. 293-296
Author(s):  
Matt R. Redding ◽  
A. Ghani ◽  
M. Kear ◽  
M. O'Connor ◽  
W. Catto
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Phosphorus Leaching ◽  
Silt Loam ◽  
Retention Capacity ◽  
P Loss ◽  
Reactive Phosphate Rock ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Phosphorus Losses ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

While it is true that leaching is usually not a strong pathway for phosphorus (P) loss under many systems, is it true for all? Two studies reported in this paper sought to establish if significant phosphorus leaching can occur under normal pastoral production systems. Undisturbed-core lysimeters collected from a Wharekohe silt loam from Northland were treated with fertiliser P (reactive phosphate rock and superphosphate) then leached from August to November, 2005. In a second study, soil profiles under pasture for sheep/beef and dairy production in the catchments of the Rotorua lakes were sampled to depths of 1.5 m (28 sites), and soil Olsen P and P retention capacity index were determined down these profiles. Phosphorus losses from the Wharekohe soil to 25 cm depth were up to 33% of the P applied (superphosphate applications of 50 and 100 kg P/ha). Some Rotorua soils displayed enriched P concentrations at depth (to 1.5 m), often coupled with moderate or low P sorption capacities. If connectivity exists between leaching pathways and surface water bodies these observations indicate that alternative management strategies need to be developed and adopted for soils that leach significant quantities of P. The Wharekohe silt loam is one such soil. Keywords: phosphorus, leaching

What’s beyond capitalist natures? The view from a camel’s back

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Pastoral Production Systems

The authors’ formulation ‘capitalist natures’ may be too quick to imply that the formal and/or real subsumption of all natures is in the process of being accomplished. I point toward liminal and dynamic cases, such as camels in pastoral production systems, to trouble the mental model of a spatialized ‘outside’ that is either simply colonized by or subsidizing capitalist relations.

Managing risks to Canada’s boreal zone: transdisciplinary thinking in pursuit of sustainability1

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena F. Creed ◽  
Peter N. Duinker ◽  
Jacqueline N. Serran ◽  
James W.N. Steenberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Boreal Zone ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Iso 31000

The policy landscape is changing as Canada considers its energy future. The Canadian boreal zone has a large amount of natural resources, giving Canada options in terms of its energy future. However, the sustainability of the boreal zone has been deemed at risk because of the cumulative effects of intensifying natural resource activities (forestry, mining, oil and gas, and renewable energy) on ecosystems in the face of the uncertainty associated with climate change. As Canada considers the future of the boreal zone, there will be additional challenges to ensure that we do not further disadvantage marginalized human populations living in the boreal zone who are at high risk of the consequences of climate change. In response to these challenges, the Boreal 2050 project was initiated to understand the risk of failing to achieve the future sustainability of the boreal zone using the ISO 31000 risk management framework. First, we identified the major drivers of the risks to the sustainability of the boreal zone, which include atmospheric change, the demand for provisioning and nonprovisioning ecosystem services, demographics and societal values, industrial innovation and infrastructure, and governance. Second, we analyzed the risk of failing to achieve a sustainable boreal zone using scenario analysis, where we framed four plausible future scenarios around two axes of change: the global economy’s energy and society’s capacity to adapt. Third, we evaluated the risk and determined that present governance systems are driving Canada towards failing to achieve a sustainable boreal zone. To ensure the future sustainability of the boreal, we need to shift from an oil/gas/coal-producing country to a renewable energy leader and shift from using a top-down strategy where Canadians have a low capacity to adapt towards a mixture of top-down and bottom-up participatory strategies where Canadians—particularly Indigenous peoples living in the boreal zone—have a higher capacity to adapt. To facilitate this shift in governance, substantive changes will be required in institutional arrangements designed to protect boreal ecosystems.

scholarly journals Predicted Shifts in the Distributions of Atlantic Reef-Building Corals in the Face of Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silas C. Principe ◽  
André L. Acosta ◽  
João E. Andrade ◽  
Tito M. C. Lotufo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Coral Species ◽  
Relative Concentration ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Brazilian Coast ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Eastern Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face

Many species drive the diversity of ecosystems by adding structural complexity to the environment. In coral reefs, stony corals act as habitat-forming species, increasing niche availability for other organisms. Some coral species play key roles as reef builders due to their abundance or morpho-functional characteristics. Thus, changes in the distributions of these species can entail cascading effects in entire ecosystems. With climate change, many coral species are experiencing shifts in their distributions, threatening the preservation of coral reefs. Here, we projected the current and future distributions of three key reef builders of the Atlantic (Mussismilia hispida, Montastraea cavernosa, and the Siderastrea complex) under three relative concentration pathway scenarios: the most optimistic, the most pessimistic and one moderate scenario (RCP2.6, 4.5, and 8.5). Our models revealed that all the above species will undergo habitat loss in the future (2100) in the most pessimistic scenario, although new areas could become suitable, including regions in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Additionally, when considering only its actual range of occurrence, M. hispida will lose habitats under all future scenarios. Moreover, in some regions of both the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic (TNA) and the Brazilian coast, these three species could disappear, with detrimental consequences for the associated communities. We highlight the need for an urgent change of course to guarantee functional reefs in the Atlantic in the future.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document