Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use. 1st ed. 2012

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edited by P.K. Ramachandran Nair, Dennis Garrity

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012

著者名:

• Nair, P.K. Ramachandran.
• Garrity, Dennis.
• SpringerLink (Online service)

シリーズ名:

Advances in Agroforestry ; 9

ISBN:

9789400746763 [9400746768]    

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Preface -- List of Authors -- List of Reviewers -- Section I. INTRODUCTION -- Keynote Presentations at WCA2 -- Agroforestry, climate change, and habitat protection -- Agroforestry for an ever-green revolution Environmental resilience and agroforestry -- Climate change and agroforestry -- Agroforestry and the transition to the future -- Agroforestry and the future of global land use -- Section II. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Based on WCA2 Symposia -- Climate-change mitigation: A low-hanging fruit of agroforestry -- Segregate or integrate for multifunctionality: landscape agroforestry involving rubber in Indonesia and China -- Integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation through agroforestry and ecosystem conservation -- High-carbon-stock rural development pathways in Asia and Africa: Improved land management for climate change mitigation -- Tree domestication in agroforestry: Progress in the second decade (2003–2012) -- Policy support for large-scale adoption of agroforestry practices: Experience from Africa a
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 n

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