Agroforestry - The Future of Global Land Use

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...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Nair, P.K. Ramachandran (-), Garrity, Dennis
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 2012.
Colección:Advances in Agroforestry ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 and Asia
  • Multifunctional Agriculture and opportunities for agroforestry – Implications of IAASTD.- Section III. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES.- The future of temperate agroforestry in the United States.- Agroforestry research and development in Canada
  • Past, present, and future of agroforestry in Europe.- Agroforestry for mine-land reclamation in Germany: Capitalizing on carbon sequestration and bioenergy production.- The Satoyama landscape of Japan: The future of an indigenous agricultural system in an industrialized society.- South Asian agroforestry: traditions, transformations, and prospects.- Agroforestry in the Amazon region: A pathway for balancing conservation and development.- Mainstreaming agroforestry in Latin America.- Land health surveillance: Mapping soil carbon in Kenyan rangelands.- Gender and agroforestry in Africa: Who benefits? – An African perspective.- Incentive mechanisms for smallholder agroforestry: Opportunities and challenges in the Philippines
  • Agroforestry – The Way Forward
  • Subject Index.