Overview
- Focuses on climate adaptation and land-use methods
- Offers tested key solutions for sustainable agriculture in dryland areas of Russia and Kazakhstan
- Provides a transdisciplinary approach to the under-researched area of steppe conversions
- A valuable asset for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers alike
Part of the book series: Innovations in Landscape Research (ILR)
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About this book
In the course of the project, a multidisciplinary research team conducted a natural, social-economic and agro-scientific cause-and-effect analysis of (agro-)ecosystem destabilisation, as well as various field trials covering tillage and crop rotation options in their socio-economic context.
The ecologically and economically sound findings offer strategies for combining climate smart land utilization, ecosystem restoration and sustainable regional development, and can readily be applied to other virgin land conversion efforts. In addition, the findings on the Eurasian steppes will expand the current conversion literature, which mainly consists of the ‘Dust Bowl’ literature of the North American plains. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists, professionals, and students in the environmental, geo- and climate sciences.
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Keywords
- Climate Change Adaptation and Impact
- Steppe Conversions
- Soil Degradation in Siberia
- Transition Economy
- Sustainable Agriculture in Dry Land Areas
- Ecosystem Restauration and Sustainable Regional Development
- Agro-Ecosystem Destabilisation
- Land Use Methods in Russia and Kazakhstan
- Environmental Geography
- climate change impacts
Table of contents (39 chapters)
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Socio-economic, Institutional and Demographic Dynamics Impacting Land Use in Post-socialist South Siberia
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Potential and Strategies of Adapted Land Use as a Basis for Ecologically and Social-economically Sustainable Development of the Rural Landscape
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Towards a Sustainable Future? Challenges for Regional Development and Innovation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenbergeris Acting Director of the Institute of Soil Science at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. His focus is on biogeochemical processes of carbon and nutrient cycling within the soil and its response and feedback to external drivers such as climate change and land-use change. He has published nearly 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lentz is Director of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany, and holds the Chair for Regional Geography at the University of Leipzig. His research interests focus on Cultural and Social Geography, Regional Geography of Europe, mainly Eastern Europe, and the successor states of the Soviet Union. Another field of expertise is Cartography, particularly thematic mapping. He is speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area”, serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Centre for East European and International Studies (Berlin) and is Vice President of the Leibniz Association.
Prof. Dr. Insa Theesfeld (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy and Governance at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. An agricultural and institutional economist, her research particularly addresses the compatibility between formal institutions and society’s norms and values, an aspect that influences effective policy implementation. In 2019 she was selected as the next president of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).
Prof. Dr. Tobias Meinel studied geography and geoecology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Halle, with a thesis on soil degradation in Siberian semiarid steppe regions. Meinel then worked at the Chair of Geoecology in Halle, focusing on the connection between crop farming and soil degradation. In 2007, Meinel took a position at the Amazonen-Werke in Kazakhstan, where he helped develop sustainable crop farming in the steppe regions. In 2012, the Altai State Agricultural University in Barnaul awarded him an honorary professorship in recognition of his achievements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: KULUNDA: Climate Smart Agriculture
Book Subtitle: South Siberian Agro-steppe as Pioneering Region for Sustainable Land Use
Editors: Manfred Frühauf, Georg Guggenberger, Tobias Meinel, Insa Theesfeld, Sebastian Lentz
Series Title: Innovations in Landscape Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15927-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15926-9Published: 31 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15929-0Published: 31 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15927-6Published: 18 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-5155
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5163
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 522
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 164 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation