Climate change and agriculture in India; Studies from selected river basins
Material type: TextPublication details: London Routledge 2018Description: 319pISBN: 9781138349094Subject(s): Climate change -Impact-India agriculture production Environmental issuesDDC classification: 551.6 Summary: This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods. It, first, makes a quantitative assessment of how climate change affects agricultural and food production systems; second, predicts how these systems may respond to climate change; and third, suggests adaptation measures and strategies to improve the income of farmers, increase production, save water and conserve environment.The work will be greatly useful to policy-makers, researchers and teachers of agricultural economics, environmental studies and economics and development studies as also to research organizations dealing with climate modelling and resource management.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | 551.6 CLI (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 51686 |
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551.6 BHA/T Textbook of Climatology | 551.6 BUR/C Climate change : A multidisciplinary approach | 551.6 CLI Climate change and agriculture | 551.6 CLI Climate change and agriculture in India; Studies from selected river basins | 551.6 CLT Climate change: Socio- economic and environmental issues- problems and challenges | 551.6 CRI/G General climatology | 551.6 CRI/G General climatology |
This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods. It, first, makes a quantitative assessment of how climate change affects agricultural and food production systems; second, predicts how these systems may respond to climate change; and third, suggests adaptation measures and strategies to improve the income of farmers, increase production, save water and conserve environment.The work will be greatly useful to policy-makers, researchers and teachers of agricultural economics, environmental studies and economics and development studies as also to research organizations dealing with climate modelling and resource management.
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