Subject Code:: CL6L121 Name: Climate Risk Assessment in Agriculture L-T-P: 2-0-0 Credit:2
Pre-requisite(s):
Climate     Change;     Agriculture;       Agro-ecosystem;       SustainabilityGlobal       Agriculture; Environmental Pressures on Agriculture; Response of Agriculture to Rising CO2 and Climate Change;Sensitivity of Tropical Agriculture to Climate change; Social Vulnerability and Food Security; Economic Policy,Physiological Ecology and Niche Based Responses; Effect of global change in Agricultural Pests; Possible Impacts and Dynamics at Population, Species, Interactions and Community Level Food Webs.Crop production in Dry-land Region; Soil Organic Matters; Sequestering Soil Carbon; Food Security in Dry-land Areas; Climate Change and Crop production modeling

Text/Reference Books:
  1. IPCC (1995) Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change, CambridgeUniv Press, Cambridge, UK.
  2. W Easterling, Aggarwal P, Batima P, Brander K, Erda L, Howden M, Kirilenko A, Morton J, Soussana J-F, Schmidhuber J, Tubiello F (2007) in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, eds Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, van der Linden PJ, Hanson CE, Cambridge Univ Press
  3. Muchow, R.C. & Bellamy, J.A.1991.Climatic risk in crop production: models and management for the semi-arid tropics and subtropics.