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Title Agroforestry - The future of global land use / P.K. Ramachandran Nair, Dennis Garrity, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Series Advances in agroforestry, 1875-1199 ; v. 9
Advances in agroforestry ; v. 9.
Contents Part 1. Introduction -- Agroforestry, Climate Change and Habitat Protection / Wangari Maathai -- Agroforestry for an Evergreen Revolution / M.S. Swaminathan -- Environmental Resilience and Agroforestry / Richard Leakey -- Climate Change and Agroforestry / Rajendra K. Pachauri -- Agroforestry and the Transition to the Future / Achim Steiner -- Agroforestry and the Future of Global Land Use / Dennis Garrity
Part 2. Global Perspectives -- Climate Change Mitigation: A Low-Hanging Fruit of Agroforestry / P.K.R. Nair -- Segregate or Integrate for Multifunctionality and Sustained Change Through Rubber-Based Agroforestry in Indonesia and China / Meine van Noordwijk, Hesti Lestari Tata, Jianchu Xu, Sonya Dewi and Peter A. Minang -- Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Through Agroforestry and Ecosystem Conservation / Johanna Matocha, Götz Schroth, Terry Hills and Dave Hole -- High-Carbon-Stock Rural-Development Pathways in Asia and Africa: Improved Land Management for Climate Change Mitigation / Peter A. Minang, Meine van Noordwijk and Brent M. Swallow -- Tree Domestication in Agroforestry: Progress in the Second Decade (2003-2012) / Roger R.B. Leakey, John C. Weber, Tony Page, Jonathan P. Cornelius and Festus K. Akinnifesi, et al. -- Policy Support for Large-Scale Adoption of Agroforestry Practices: Experience from Africa and Asia / Oluyede C. Ajayi and Frank Place -- Multifunctional Agriculture and Opportunities for Agroforestry: Implications of IAASTD / Roger R.B. Leakey
Part 3. Regional Perspectives -- The Future of Temperate Agroforestry in the United States / Shibu Jose, Michael A. Gold and Harold E. Garrett -- Agroforestry Research and Development in Canada: The Way Forward / Naresh V. Thevathasan, Andrew M. Gordon, Robert Bradley, Alain Cogliastro and Percy Folkard, et al. -- Past, Present and Future of Agroforestry Systems in Europe / M.R. Mosquera-Losada, G. Moreno, A. Pardini, J.H. McAdam and V. Papanastasis, et al. -- Agroforestry for Mine-Land Reclamation in Germany: Capitalizing on Carbon Sequestration and Bioenergy Production / Ansgar Quinkenstein, Dirk Freese, Christian Böhm, Penka Tsonkova and Reinhard F. Hüttl -- The Satoyama Landscape of Japan: The Future of an Indigenous Agricultural System in an Industrialized Society / Kaoru Ichikawa and Gregory G. Toth -- South Asian Agroforestry: Traditions, Transformations, and Prospects / B. Mohan Kumar, Anil Kumar Singh and S.K. Dhyani -- Agroforestry in the Amazon Region: A Pathway for Balancing Conservation and Development / Roberto Porro, Robert P. Miller, Marcos R. Tito, Jason A. Donovan and Jorge L. Vivan, et al. -- Mainstreaming Agroforestry in Latin America / Eduardo Somarriba, John Beer, Julio Alegre-Orihuela, Hernán J. Andrade and Rolando Cerda, et al. -- Land Health Surveillance: Mapping Soil Carbon in Kenyan Rangelands / Tor-Gunnar Vågen, Finn A. Davey and Keith D. Shepherd -- Gender and Agroforestry in Africa: Who Benefits? The African Perspective / Evelyne Kiptot and Steven Franzel -- Incentive Mechanisms for Smallholder Agroforestry: Opportunities and Challenges in the Philippines / Delia C. Catacutan, Rodel D. Lasco and Caroline D. Piñon
Summary Agroforestry ranks high among the significant initiatives in improving land management that have occurred the world over during the past few decades. Thanks to the global efforts in research and development during the past three decades, the age-old forms of agroforestry are being transformed from a "set of practices in search of science" to a science-based, integrated approach to addressing many of the world's most serious land-management challenges. Today, nearly a billion hectares of agricultural landscapes already have more than 10% tree cover and an estimated total of 1.6 billion hectares of land worldwide has the potential to be under agroforestry management in the foreseeable future. The World Congresses of Agroforestry (WCA), held once every five years since 2004, constitute an important set of events in the impressive development of the discipline. The second Congress (WCA2) held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2009, was attended by about 1,200 delegates from 96 countries. This book was developed to meet the need for a volume containing such outputs that do not fit well into the thematic mode of disciplinary journals. It has been organized into three sections: the Introduction section consists of six summaries of keynote speeches at WCA2; that is followed by two sections of peer-reviewed thematic chapters grouped as "Global Perspectives" (seven chapters) and "Regional Perspectives" (11 chapters), authored by professional leaders in their respective agroforestry-related fields worldwide. A total of 130 professionals from institutions in 33 countries in both developing and the industrialized temperate regions of the world, contributed to the book as chapter authors and/or reviewers. Thus, the book contains a solid body of the current state of knowledge on the various themes and activities in agroforestry worldwide compiled by distinguished leaders in their respective areas of expertise
Analysis Life sciences
Endangered ecosystems
Environmental management
Sustainable development
Soil Science & Conservation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Agroforestry.
Agriculture.
Forests and forestry.
Agriculture
Forestry
agroforestry
farming (activity or system)
forestry.
agriculture (discipline)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry.
Forests and forestry
Agriculture
Agroforestry
Form Electronic book
Author Nair, P. K. R
Garrity, Dennis P
ISBN 9789400746763
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