Managing weather and climate risks in agriculture Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Raymond P. Motha, editors - Berlin Springer c2007 - xxx, 503 Páginas il. (algunas col.) 24 cm

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Extreme weather and climate events and farming risks -- Preparedness and coping strategies for agricultural drougth risk management: recent progress and trends -- Challenges to coping strategies with agrometeorological risks and uncertainties in Africa -- Challenges to coping strategies with agrometeorological risks and uncertainties in Asian Regions -- Challenges and strategies to face agrometeorological risks and uncertainties - regional perspective in south america -- Agrometeorological risk and coping strategies - perspective from Indian Subcontinent -- Challenges to coping strategies in agrometeorology: the soutwest pacific -- Challenges to agrometeorological risk management - regional perspectives: Europe -- Methods of evaluating agrometeorological risks and uncertainties -- for estimating global agriculture supply and demand -- Weather and climate and optimization of farm technologies at different imput levels -- Complying farmers conditions and needs using new weather and climate information approaches and technologies -- Information technology and decision support system for on-farm applications to cope effectively with agrometeorological risk and uncertainties -- Coping strategies with agrometerological risks uncetainties for crop yield -- water management in a sem-arid region: an analogue algorithm approach -- water management - water use in rainfed regions of India -- Examples of coping strategies with agrometeorological risks and uncentrainties for integrated pest management -- Coping strategies with agrometeorological risks and uncentainties for drought examples in Brasil -- Coping strategies with desertificaion in China -- Coping strategies with agrometeorological risksand uncertainties for water erosion runoff and soil loss -- Developing a global early warming systemfor wildland fire -- Scientific and economic rationalefor weather risk insurance for agriculture -- Weather index insurance for coping with in agricultural production -- wearher risk insurance for coping with risk to agricultural production -- Contingency planning for drought - a case study in coping with agrometeorological risks and uncetainties -- agrometeorological serives to cope with riks and uncetainties -- Using simultation modelling as a policy option in copingwith agrometeorological risksand uncertainties -- Managing weather and climate risks in agriculture summary and recommendations.


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AGROMETEOROLOGÍA
ANOMALIAS CLIMATICAS
CONFERENCIAS
EVALUACION DE RIESGOS
EVENTOS CLIMÁTICOS EXTREMOS

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