Overview
- Investigates new ways of adapting agriculture to climate change
- Presents several case studies from African countries
- Based on experiences from diverse climatic conditions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Climate Change Management (CCM)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Walter Leal is a Professor of Environment and Technology at MMU and at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, in Germany. Walter Leal directs the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) which is a leading programme on climate change education, information and communication. His research interests are on sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy. He has over 300 publications among authored/edited books, book chapters, papers published in refereed journals and/or presented at international conferences, to his credit and serves as honorary professor at the University of Blageovgrad, University of Rezekne, University of Applied Sciences Zittau-Görlitz and is a visiting professor at various other universities.
Anthony Esilaba is the Program Officer at Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Nairobi, Kenya. Anthony Esilaba has worked for many international research organizations, coordinated numerous regional projects on natural resources management, supervised very many post graduate students and has published extensively especially on soil fertility management.
K.P.C. Rao is the Principal Scientist and Ethiopia Country Representative with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). He has lived and worked in Asia and Africa for 30 years conducting research on sustainable management of soil and water resources at both farm and watershed scales, managing climate-induced production risks and improving the livelihood resilience of farming communities. Rao has a strong background in modeling agricultural systems, is the author or co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and conference papers.
G. Sridhar, a doctorate from University of Reading, is a scientist with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics based in its Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa. Areas of expertise include CAT Management,strategic catastrophe risk consulting, process and IT design/reengineer for underwriting CAT risk, Portfolio Risk Management for Insurance Companies, Product Design and Consultancy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change
Book Subtitle: Transforming Rural Livelihoods
Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Anthony O. Esilaba, Karuturi P.C. Rao, Gummadi Sridhar
Series Title: Climate Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13000-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12999-0Published: 09 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38592-1Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13000-2Published: 26 November 2014
Series ISSN: 1610-2002
Series E-ISSN: 1610-2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 233
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Agricultural Economics, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Finance, Business & Banking, Oil, Gas & Geosciences