Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies
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Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

Wayne Ganpat, Wendy-Ann Isaac
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Release Date: October, 2016|Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 406
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1607-1
ISBN13: 9781522516071|ISBN10: 1522516077|EISBN13: 9781522516088
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Description:

This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it covers the inevitable impact of climate change continues to evolve as the global population increases, building upon the need for expansion in current research on strategies to manage variable and extreme weather conditions, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and more. Containing scholarly work of researchers from the U.S., China, and more, this publication has been recognized by Scopus for its comprehensive coverage on sustainable land use, disaster risk management, and more.

Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the scientific, technical, and socio-economic factors related to climate change assessment. Providing a comprehensive overview of perspectives on sustainability protection of environmental resources, this book is ideally designed for policy makers, professionals, government officials, upper-level students, and academics interested in emerging research on climate change.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Agriculture
  • Carbon Footprint
  • Disaster Risk Management
  • Eco-Municipalities
  • Sustainable Land Use
  • Water Quality
  • Watershed Management
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Editors Ganpat and Isaac present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles on the latest scholarship on the scientific, socioeconomic, and technical factors affecting contemporary climate change assessment. The thirteen selections that make up the main body of the text are devoted to the role of eco-municipalities in climate change for a sustainable future, the impact of climate change on key agricultural pests, Indian national strategy for climate change adaptation and migration, and many other related subjects.

– Protoview Reviews

Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies provides a useful overview of sustainable development, agricultural, and resource management adaptation strategies in the face of climate change threats. Recommended for academic and research libraries.

– Eric Tans, ARBA
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Wayne Ganpat (PhD Agricultural Extension) is a Caribbean extension professional. Presently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Extension and Communications at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago and teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to joining the UWI, he worked as an Extension Officer in the government extension service for over 20 years and left as the Deputy Director of Extension Services. He has worked as a consultant for governments in most Caribbean countries over the last 20 years doing work both in Extension and Communications.
Wendy-Ann Isaac is a Lecturer in Crop Production in the Department of Food Production, Faculty of Food and Agriculture at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Isaac received her BSc. MSc., and Ph.D. degrees from the UWI, St. Augustine and M.Appl.Sci. in Agronomy from Lincoln University, New Zealand. Her research interests include Sustainable crop production systems and Participatory action research techniques with small farmers. She has worked with Fairtrade banana small farmers in St. Vincent and The Grenadines using the Participatory Research methods as part of her PhD. studies. She has authored and co-authored papers on these topics, which have been published in both regional and international peer-reviewed journals and is the co-editor on three books including Sustainable Food Production Practices in the Caribbean Volumes 1 and 2 and The Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in Small Island Developing States.
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