M. JAMES SALINGER / Increasing Climate Variability and Change:
Reducing the Vulnerability. Guest Editorial .................. 1
M. JARRAUD / Foreword ........................................... 5
M. JAMES SALINGER / Climate Variability and Change:
Past, Present and Future - An Overview ....................... 9
M.V.K. SIVAKUMAR, H.P. DAS and O. BRUNINI / Impacts of Present
and Future Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture
and Forestry in the Arid and Semi-Arid Tropics .............. 31
YANXIA ZHAO, CHUNYI WANG, SHILI WANG and LOURDES V. TIBIG /
Impacts of Present and Future Climate Variability on
Agriculture and Forestry in the Humid and Sub-Humid
Tropics ..................................................... 73
GIANPIERO MARACCHI, OLEG SIROTENKO and MARCO BINDI / Impacts
of Present and Future Climate Variability on Agriculture
and Forestry in the Temperate Regions: Europe .............. 117
RAYMOND P. MOTHA and WOLFGANG BAIER / Impacts of Present and
Future Climate Change and Climate Variability on
Agriculture in the Temperate Regions: North America ........ 137
WILLIAM EASTERLING and MICHAEL APPS / Assessing
the Consequences of Climate Change for Food and Forest
Resources: A View from the IPCC ............................ 165
IAN BURTON and BO LIM / Achieving Adequate Adaptation in
Agriculture ................................................ 191
MIKE HARRISON / The Development of Seasonal and
Inter-Annual Climate Forecasting .......................... 201
HOLGER MEINKE and ROGER C. STONE / Seasonal and Inter-Annual
Climate Forecasting: The New Tool for Increasing
Preparedness to Climate Variability and Change in
Agricultural Planning and Operations ....................... 221
C.J. STIGTER, ZHENG DAWEI, L.O.Z. ONYEWOTU and MEI XURONG /
Using Traditional Methods and Indigenous Technologies for
Coping with Climate Variability ............................ 255
DON C. MACIVER and ELAINE WHEATON / Tomorrow's Forests:
Adapting to a Changing Climate ............................. 273
R.L. DESJARDINS, W. SMITH, B. GRANT, C. CAMPBELL and
R. RIZNEK / Management Strategies to Sequester Carbon in
Agricultural Soils and to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas
Emissions .................................................. 283
MOHAMMED BOULAHYA, MACOL STEWART CERDA, MARION PRATT and
KELLY SPONBERG / Climate, Communications, and Innovative
Technologies: Potential Impacts and Sustainability of New
Radio and Internet Linkages in Rural African Communities ... 299
SUE WALKER / Role of Education and Training in Agricultural
Meteorology to Reduce Vulnerability to Climate
Variability ................................................ 311
VICTORINE PERARNAUD, BERNARD SEGUIN, ERIC MALEZIEUX,
MICHEL DEQUE and DENIS LOUSTAU / Agrometeorological
Research and Applications Needed to Prepare Agriculture
and Forestry to 21st Century Climate Change ................ 319
M.J. SALINGER, M.V.K. SIVAKUMAR and R. MOTHA / Reducing
Vulnerability of Agriculture and Forestry to Climate
Variability and Change: Workshop Summary and
Recommendations ............................................ 341
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