Enhancing Resilience of Dryland Agriculture Under Changing Climate: Interdisciplinary and Convergence Approaches

This contributed volume discusses management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from various agricultural science disciplines to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture. It focuses on addressing current issues, trends, and prospects in adopting salient agricultural management practices in drylands globally under a climate-change scenario. The book highlights the impact of climate change on dryland agriculture, including water shortages, floods, and reduced crop yields. It emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary and convergence approaches to tackle climate-induced risks and offers detailed procedures for applying advanced practices adapted to climate change for dryland agriculture management.

Format: Hardback
Length: 716 pages
Publication date: 10 March 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This contributed volume presents management practices rooted in interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from various disciplines within agricultural science, aimed at enhancing the resilience of dryland agriculture. The primary objective of this book is to address the prevailing issues, trends, and future prospects and challenges in adopting salient agricultural management practices in drylands across the globe, particularly in the context of climate change. Climate change and global warming exert significant impacts on the increasing frequency, severity, and duration of droughts and/or floods, which may have far-reaching consequences for the future productivity of dryland agriculture. These impacts can include water shortages or abundances, high or low runoff rates, diminished crop yields, and reduced water productivity. Over the past few years, remarkable technological advancements and management strategies have emerged to mitigate the climate-induced risks faced by dryland agriculture, leveraging interdisciplinary and convergence approaches that integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines. This book serves as an endeavor to bridge the gap in literature by unraveling controversies and characteristics of dryland ecosystems under changing climatic conditions and addressing the intricacies of applying advanced practices tailored to climate change for the management of dryland agriculture. This edited book holds immense interest for ecologists, economists, environmentalists, geologists, horticulturalists, hydrologists, soil scientists, social scientists, natural resource conservationists, and policy makers engaged in the field of dryland agriculture. It provides a comprehensive understanding of dryland agriculture and assists the reader in identifying both the current and likely future state of dryland agriculture within a global context.

Weight: 1268g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811991585
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023