Managing water and agroecosystems for food security / (Record no. 45074)
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fixed length control field | 02866nam a22002058a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9781780640884 (alk. paper) |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 577.55 |
Item number | MAN |
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Managing water and agroecosystems for food security / |
Statement of responsibility, etc | edited by Eline Boelee. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; |
-- | Boston, MA : |
Name of publisher | CABI, |
Year of publication | 2013. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | p. cm. |
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
Series statement | Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series, 10 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
General note | Includes index |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | <br/>Introduction / E. Boelee ... [et al.]<br/>Drivers and challenges for food security / J. Barron, R.E. Tharme and M. Herrero<br/>Water-related ecosystem services and food security / D. Coates ... [et al.]<br/>Challenges to agroecosystem management / P.L. Pert ... [et al.]<br/>Water use in agroecosystems<br/>R. Fleiner ... [et al.]<br/>Drylands / E.M. Solowey ... [et al.]<br/>Wetland / M. Finlayson ... [et al.]<br/>Increasing water productivity in agriculture / K. Descheemaeker ... [et al.]<br/>Managing agroecosystem services / D.I. Jarvis ... [et al.]<br/>Water management for ecosystem health and food production / G.J. Lloyd ... [et al.]<br/>Management of water and agrosystems in landscapes for sustainable food security / E. Boelee ... [et al.] |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | This book is the 10th volume in the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series. The book is structured to systematically show the relationships between ecosystems, water and food security, and to elaborate an ecosystem approach to sustainable agriculture. It contains chapters on the drivers of food security (Chapter 2) and provides analyses on ecosystems, agroecosystems, ecosystem services and their valuation (Chapters 3 and 4). Next, there is an analysis of the role of water in agriculture as well as analyses of water use and scarcity (Chapter 5). This is followed by discussions of the specific challenges in drylands (Chapter 6) and wetlands (Chapter 7); each of these chapters provides more insight into the reasons why an integrated ecosystem approach is required and what this should entail, giving practical recommendations for those vulnerable ecosystems. A discussion of the contributions that can be made by increased water productivity to a better joint management of agroecosystems and water follows in the next chapter (Chapter 8). Subsequently, Chapter 9 presents various approaches to the enhancement of ecosystem services in agriculture, with many concrete examples, while Chapter 10 provides more detail of the ecosystem approach to water management. Finally, the last chapter (Chapter 11) ends the book with a synthesis that embeds the key recommendations into a landscape approach, links this to ongoing initiatives and identifies knowledge gaps for further research |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Agricultural ecology. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Water in agriculture. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Food security. |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Boelee, Eline. |
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Koha item type | Reference Books |
Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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Reference | Main Library | Main Library | Reference | 12/07/2023 | Donation | 13300.00 | 577.55 MAN | 016442 | Reference Books |