- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Business / Economics
Full Description
This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood. It highlights the role of sustainable development goals in reducing the impact of climate change on agriculture. The contributions found in this volume discuss methodological and innovative resilience approaches to various natural hazards including flood, landslide, environmental challenges, strategies of disaster risk management, livelihood, ecosystem services and agricultural sustainability. It explores the relationship between climatic change and agricultural transformation. While throwing light on the role of ecosystem services in disaster risk reduction, the book explores the impact of land degradation and change on growth of agricultural production and food production. The book will be useful for students and researchers of geography, environmental sciences, disaster management and environmental geology. It will also be useful for geographers, environmentalists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, planners, and professionals working on related ideas.
Contents
Part I: Climate Change, Vulnerability and Agricultural Transformation 1. Disaster Risk, Resilient Agriculture, and Livelihood: An Overview- Rukhsana, Asraful Alam, Sumaiya Khatun 2. Farmers' Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies against Climate Change Impact on Agriculture- Sivaraj Paramasivam, Parthasarathy Seethapathy and G. Vivekanathapatmanaban 3. Rainfall Anomaly Index Valuation of Agricultural Production in Jakiri Sub-Division, Northwest Region, Cameroon- Suiven John Paul Tume & Suika Rita Nyuyfoni 4. Vulnerability Assessment of Soil Erosion: A Geographical Study of the Upper Catchment Area of the Tista River, India- Asraful Alam, Lakshminarayan Satpati, Arijit Ghosh 5. Assessing the Dynamics of Agriculture Under the Changing Climate in Gosaba Block of Indian Sundarban- Biraj Kanti Mondal 6. Dynamics of Vegetation and Land-use Land-cover Assessments of Kolkata District- Najib Ansari and Rukhsana Part II: Disaster risk, Population and Livelihood 7. Self-reported health problems due to disasters in India: evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India- Margubur Rahaman, Amiya Saha and Kailash C.D. 8. Indigenous and Scientific Based-Resilient strategies to Pre and Post Disasters Management in Cameroon: Insights from the Lake Nyos 1986 Gas Disaster in the Boyo-Menchum Basin- Augustine Toh Gam, Mbanga Lawrence Akei, Mofor Gilbert Zechia 9. Depopulated Region in Mirik Municipality of Darjeeling district, West Bengal: A Demographical Analysis- Ershad Ali & Dr. Bipul Chandra Sarkar 10. Assessment of a sea turtle nesting beach, a tropical habitat: Rushikulya, East coast of India- Umakanta Pradhan, Pravakar Mishra, Pratap Kumar Mohanty 11. Risk and Livelihood Pattern of Informal Workers: A household evidences from Kolkata city- Alisha Safder & Md. Julfikar Ali 12. Fertility Status and deprivation of Muslim Women Population -A micro level study in selected CD Blocks of West Bengal- Soleman Khan and AKM Anwaruzzaman Part III: Agriculture, Environment and livelihoods: Mapping and Application 13. Trend evaluation of Agriculture production and yield of major crops in West Bengal: A district-level time series data analysis- Rukhsana 14. Mapping and Analyzing Air Pollution Using Google Earth Engine of Thiruvananthapuram City- S. Bala Subramaniyam and Sabirul Sk 15. Mapping and Development of agriculture diversity in West Bengal: An evaluation at district level- Rukhsana 16. Does agricultural cooperative membership help to reduce the overuse of agrochemicals pesticides (CPs)? Evidence from a rural area in West region Cameroon- Kaldjob Mbeh Christian Bernard, Douya Emmanuel, Tata Ngome Precillia, Nso Ngang Andre and Bamou Tankoua Lydie 17. Impact of urban growth on land surface temperature pattern of urban landscape using space-borne images- Gurucharan Karmakar, Apurba Sarkar, Pradip Chouhan & Margubur Rahaman 18. Mapping and investigating of land use and land cover changes using Geo-Spatial analysis: A case study Sagardighi Block, Murshidaba- Md. Mustaquim and Woheeul Islam
