Contents: Preface. 1. Causes and influences of climate change and management of weather for sustainable agriculture/Venkatesh Bharadwaj. 2. Sustainable agriculture: from green to evergreen revolution/Avdhesh K. Sharma. 3. Influence of global warming and climate change on agriculture/Anand K. Sharma. 4. Satellite observations in relation to climate change/N.R. Patel. 5. Impact adaptation and vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change/Padmakar Tripathi. 6. Climate change in the hilly regions/N.S. Murty and R.K. Singh. 7. Microclimates of Himalayan region and their effects on crop productivity/N.S. Murty and R.K. Singh. 8. Climate as a basis for zoning of an area/Suman Kumar. 9. Crop weather relationship and modelling/R.K. Singh and N.S. Murty. 10. Crop yield modeling using remotely sensed agrometeorological data/N.R. Patel. 11. Anthropogenic factors and climate change/J.P.N. Rai. 12. Influence of climate on formation and development of soil/H.N. Singh and S.K. Singh. 13. Influence of weather and climatic condition on soil fertility/Sobaran Singh. 14. Influence of climate on the microbial properties of soil/H.P. Singh. 15. Climate change and agricultural productivity/S.K. Saini and Amit Bhatnagar. 16. Influence of climate and weather on horticultural crops/L.D. Bisht. 17. Influence of climate and weather on vegetable crops/N.P. Singh. 18. Management of weather for sustainable horticultural, vegetables and ornamental crops/N.P. Singh. 19. Influence of climate and weather on ornamental crops/Ranjan Srivastava. 20. Physical factors influencing weather and climate/B.R.K. Gupta. 21. Influence of climate on the distribution of forests/P.R. Rajput and Rajesh Kaushal. 22. Role of agro-forestry in the Management of weather/B.C. Saini. 23. Climatic conditions influencing the forest fire and effect of forest fire on local weather/P.R. Rajput, Rajesh Kaushal and Rekha Purohit. 24. Impact of climate change on agroecosystem and policy initiative/Uma Melkania and Asha Upadhyay. 25. Influence of past climate changes on societal adaptations socio-political and ecological perspectives/Vir Singh. 26. Environmental consequences of tillage practices in rice-wheat cropping system and their control measures/T.C. Thakur. 27. Influence of climate change on hydrological cycle/H.C. Sharma. 28. Climate associated stresses and their adaptational features in animals/S.K. Rastogi and J.P. Korde. 29. Management of weather for sustainable livestock production/Ashok Kumar. 30. Influence of climate and weather on poultry production/R.K. Sharma. 31. Management of weather for sustainable poultry production/R.K. Sharma. 32. Indian monsoon and weather forecasting for sustainable agriculture/R.K. Singh and N.S. Murty. 33. Influence of climate change on biogas production/T.K. Bhattacharya. 34. Breeding of crops for flood tolerance/M.Z.K. Warsi. 35. Genetic manipulation for inducing tolerance in plants against limited soil moisture and low temperature conditions/N.K. Singh and C.S. Kar. 36. Plant diseases in relation to climatic change/V.S. Pundhir and Sri Vinod K. Mehara. 37. Climate change and biodiversity/J.P.N. Rai. 38. Influence of climatic conditions on food quality/Y.K. Jha. 39. Microbiological changes in food grains during storage as affected by weather condition/S.M. Tyagi. 40. Irrigation as a tool of adverse weather management/H.C. Sharma. 41. Headwater flood control measures/J.K. Singh. 42. Influence of mulches and shelter belts in the management of ill effect of weather/H.S. Mishra. 43. Prevention of crops from frost and fog/Suman Kumar. 44. Estimation of methane and nitrous oxide in incubated soils by gas chromatograph/Venkatesh and Bharadwaj. 45. Use of statistical methods in the study of climate change/H. Ahmad. 46. Role of extension and communication in dissemination of weather based information among farmers/B.B. Singh. 47. Effective presentation skills--some tips/Birendra Kumar. 48. Influence of climate and weather on fishery production/H.R. Singh, Vipul Gupta and A.P. Sharma. 49. Some basic concepts of meteorological processes and future analytical procedures in agrometeorology/Shammi Raj. Subject index.
"Weather and climate are the key factors that affect the livelihood of flora and fauna on the earth. Agriculture is such an activity that is highly dependent on weather and climate for producing the food, feed and fiber necessary to sustain human life and therefore the changing climate could have a significant role for maintaining food security in ever increasing population of the world. In this context, the present book is an effort to understand the climate change science in an efficient manner in current scenario. Primarily this book embodies information on status of climate change, its environmental consequences along with its possible influences on global to regional level. Subsequently it also deals with the impact of these changes on agricultural productivity including horticulture, vegetables, forests, fisheries, livestock, etc. and to provide the appropriate methods to minimize the ill effects of climate change and to manage the weather efficiently. Besides these, the behaviour of Indian monsoon in agricultural productivity and satellites observations in relation to climate change are also described in detail. The chapters in this book have been contributed by eminent researchers and scientists engaged in basic and applied research of their specialized fields. Therefore importance of this book has been increased for the scientists, researchers, teachers, extension workers, students and farmers, methods used are innovative, appropriate and generate unique style of observing as well as analyzing both process and phenomenon of any social system. The State Agricultural University, ICAR Institute, management institutes, professionals for rural development, scholars of zoology, fishery, agricultural extension, fishery extension, home sciences, etc. can find this book of extreme application and mettle for topping up their acumen in relevant areas of studies and application." (jacket)
