Managing grazing lands to improve soils and promote climate change adaptation and mitigation: a global synthesis

Session 4 Managing Soils for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Intense interest in soil organic matter (SOM) over its role in the storage of terrestrial carbon (C) and in the release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere manifests itself in a renewal of research efforts to assess the impacts of different soil management systems on C dynamics. This paper assesses the future role of selected systems for managing agricultural and pastoral land; addressing ...

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Measures to promote both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in agriculture

Introduction to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options

Climate is a critical factor shaping the structure and function of forest ecosystems in the Southern United States. Human induced changes in climate systems have resulted in an increase in the global average air temperature of about 0.8°C since the 1900s (Pachuri and Reisinger 2007). Data from long-term weather stations show that overall, the continental United States has warmed during the past...

Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation

Refugia have long been studied from paleontological and biogeographical perspectives to understand how populations persisted during past periods of unfavorable climate. Recently, researchers have applied the idea to contemporary landscapes to identify climate change refugia, here defined as areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change over time that enable persistence of valued ph...