Strategizing Agricultural Management for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (eBook)

This volume aims to raise awareness and stimulate research on how agricultural management could help to mitigate climate change impacts, and focuses on technical progressions and innovations in climate change mitigation and adaptation. It addresses new innovations in agricultural technology and management with the goal of balancing agricultural production and its associated climate effects in a sustainable manner. The major topics covered include crop and soil management, techniques and technologies for emission reduction, irrigation, land degradation, pest and disease management, farmers' perspectives, and climate-smart agriculture policy. The book is geared towards students, researchers, and professionals in the fields of environmental science, agriculture science, and climate change.

Dr Suhaib A. Bandh is an Assistant Professor in Department of Higher Education, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. He is a life member of the Academy of Plant Sciences India and National Environmental Science Academy India. Dr Bandh, a recipient of many awards, has participated in several national and international conferences held by different reputed scientific bodies in India and abroad. He has several scientific publications to his credit, published in some highly reputed and impacted journals, attesting to his scientific insight, fine experimental skills and outstanding writing skills. Dr Bandh has recently edited and authored many books like Freshwater Microbiology: Perspectives of Lake Bacterial Dynamics, Environmental Management: Environmental Issue, awareness and abatement, Perspectives of Environmental Science, Climate Change and Microbial Diversity: Advances and Challenges, Climate Change and Microbes: Impacts and Vulnerability, Sustainable Agriculture: Technical Progressions and Transitions, Climate change: the Social and Scientific Construct with some leading scholarly publishing houses including Springer Nature, Elsevier Inc USA, Callisto References and AAP/CRC, A TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP. Dr. Bandh is also an Academic Editor of many Journals published by HINDAWI and has also edited some Special Issues in some leading journals.