Research Catalog

Title

Food-climate interactions : proceedings of an international workshop held in Berlin (West), December 9-12, 1980 / edited by Wilfrid Bach, Jürgen Pankrath, and Stephen H. Schneider.

Publication

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Boston : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Boston, ©1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bach, Wilfrid.
• Pankrath, Jürgen.
• Schneider, Stephen Henry.

Description

xxxi, 504 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Food supply > Congresses
• Famines > Congresses
• Food crops > Climatic factors > Congresses
• Famines
• Food crops > Climatic factors
• Food supply
• Agrarklima
• Ernährung
• Klima
• Berlin <West, 1980>

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Overview. Interactions of food and climate : issues and policy considerations / S.H. Schneider, W. Bach -- Dimensions of the world food and climate problem / L.E. Slater -- World food demand and supply : present and future. World food needs and prospects / J.A. Pino, R.W. Cummings, Jr., G.H. Toenniessen -- Population growth, nutrition and food supply / G. Borgstrom -- Seawater based agriculture as a food production defense against climate variability / C.N. Hodges, et. al. -- Agricultural development prospects until the year 2000 / H. Von Loesch -- Discussion -- Climatic variability and food production. Climate variability and crop yield in high and low temperate regions / J.D. McQuigg -- Climatic variability and crop yields in the semi arid Tropics / L.D. Swindale, S.M. Virmani -- Climatic variability and sustainability of crop yield in the moist Tropics / C.F. Cooper -- Climate and aquatic food production / J.E. Bardach, R.M. Santerre -- Vulnerability of food supplies. Water resources and food supply / G. Lindh -- Soil management and the food supply / E.G. Hallsworth -- Interrelations between pests and climate factors / F. Klingauf -- Food, energy, and climate change / D. Pimentel -- Towards a conservation strategy to retain world food and biosphere options / G.P. Hekstra -- Discussion -- Assessment of climate, food interactions -- Basic data requirements : experience with the World Wheat Experiment of the World Meteorological Organization / K. Heger -- Technology of crop, weather modeling / C.M. Sakamoto -- State of the art of predicting short period climatic variations / J. Namias -- Climatic variability and coherence in time and space / H. Flohn -- Discussion -- Policy implications of food, climate interactions. Economic consequences of food, climate, variability / P. Spitz -- Strategies to deal with climate, food interactions in developed countries / W.P. Thalwitz -- Strategies to increase food production in developing countries / W. Treitz -- Discussion.

ISBN

• 9027713537
• 9789027713537
• 9027713545
• 9789027713544
• 9789400985636
• 9400985630

LCCN

81017755

OCLC

• ocm07876559
• 7876559
• SCSB-1906318

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library