Climate uncertainties and biodiversity: An overview

Kamboj, Rohit; Kamboj, Sweta; Kamboj, Shikha; Kriplani, Priyanka; Dutt, Rohit; Guarve, Kumar; Grewal, Ajmer Singh; Srivastav, Arun Lal; Gautam, Surya Prakash

doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-99714-0.00016-9

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“…Currently, the human well-being is compromised by the climate change that negatively impact the natural capital with a strong effect on the agroecosystem [4,5]. The increase in global temperature and drought events has direct consequences on food security, reducing crop production and quality or altering the genetic biodiversity of agroecosystems with a loss of cultural capital linked to traditional crop products.…”

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Increase of landscape ecosystem services generated by agrivoltaics systems

Semeraro,

Leggieri,

Calisi

et al. 2024

MATEC Web Conf.

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UN estimated that the world population will probably grow by 75% in 2050. This will press food and energy production to satisfy human needs. In recent years, the agricultural and energy sectors have been in competition for land use, as many arable lands have been changed in photovoltaic (PV) farms with a loss of food production and ecosystem services. Indeed, in many PV farms the flora is ruderal, with the prevalence of nitrophilous-type plants, and requires frequent mowing with a cost for the companies to prevent panel shading and reduce fire risk. The agrivoltaics system represents a new frontier for renewable energy policy, by associating energy production with food security. The agrivoltaics system combines the PV panels installation with the possibility to develop crop production under them. This provides a new perspective of vegetation management in the agrivoltaics field, mainly allowing to replace invasive plants (passive vegetation management) into crop production (active vegetation management). This allows the implementation of food production and raw material, besides the improvement of ecosystem services provisioning. In this study, we estimated the ecosystem services increase by three agricultural scenarios of agrivoltaics systems, such as vegetables vegetation and woods vegetation. The results show that these potential solutions can give the possibility to generate new economic activities in agrivoltaics farms with potential benefits from a local scale (e.g., cultural services) to a global one (e.g., regulation services). In the agrivoltaics system, the provisioning of ecosystem services is deviated by the feedback of agricultural knowledge, PV technologies and vegetation development. They represent Innovativebased Solutions creating more landscape and environmental externality for human needs through multifunctional land use.

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Increase of landscape ecosystem services generated by agrivoltaics systems

Semeraro,

Leggieri,

Calisi

et al. 2024

MATEC Web Conf.

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“…Furthermore, the 20th century was characterized by being a period of unprecedented economic expansion and the accelerated growth of the population after the world wars was not seen as a problem (Bardi, 2014). However, current climate change projections indicate that it is evolving rapidly and affecting all biological systems in the world (Kamboj et al, 2023). The above is important and relevant because it is directly linked to health and the emergence of pandemics for the future (McLennan, 2022).…”

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Science, technology, agri-food systems, health, and wellbeing: logic, dynamics, and relationships

Vargas-Canales,

Orozco-Cirilo,

Estrada

et al. 2024

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The agri-food sector worldwide is the most important for life. The recent pandemic made it clear that the best way to resist, overcome and adapt to health problems is by maintaining a healthy, adequate and balanced diet. Currently, food comes almost entirely from agri-food systems, the problem is that the agri-food sector subordinated to an economic and scientific model with very clear interests and objectives. In this sense, the aim of this work was to carry out an analysis of the logic, dynamics and relationship between science, technology, agri-food systems, health and wellbeing from the perspective of Social Studies of Science and Technology. With what is intended contribute to the debate on the future and the strategic transformation of agri-food systems. As a first point, an exploration of the evolution and trends of science and technology in the agri-food sector is carried out. Next, an analysis is developed on the importance of agri-food systems and the ways in which they have been configured. Subsequently, the relationship between food and health and the main implications and damage caused by the current agri-food regime are addressed. Based on the above, some alternatives are proposed to improve nutrition, health and wellbeing. These alternatives imply, on the one hand, a profound reconfiguration of technological systems, orienting them toward the reproduction of life. Secondly, and as a consequence of the above, a reorganization of the economic and social systems. To achieve this, it is advisable to design a policy that promotes sustainable agri-food systems and integrate broad work and research groups that allow addressing these problems and proposing alternatives from different perspectives. Finally, it is important to design and implement science dissemination programs on the relationships, controversies, tensions and problems that exist between scientific and technological development and the agri-food sector, health and wellbeing with the aim of having a true impact on the society and a genuine social appropriation of knowledge.

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“…The capacity of agroecosystems to support ecosystem services is strongly compromised by climate change, which is the main driver of ecosystem functionality damages [13][14][15][16]. For example, high temperatures associated with water shortages can increase plant evapotranspiration and reduce primary production, which is a basic supporting service for life on the Earth, because it guarantees the flux from solar to chemical energy [17][18][19][20].…”

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Impact of Climate Change on Agroecosystems and Potential Adaptation Strategies

Semeraro

Scarano

Leggieri³

et al. 2023

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Agriculture is currently one of the leading economic sectors most impacted by climate change. Due to its great field of application and its susceptibility to meteorological variability, the effects of climate change on agriculture have significant social and economic consequences for human well-being. Moreover, the increasing need for land spaces for population growth has produced strong competition between food and urbanization, leading to a loss of the agroecosystem that supports food security. This review aims to understand the main risks generated by climate change in agricultural production and the potential strategies that can be applied to increase agriculture’s resilience. Agricultural risk can be linked to the decrease in the productivity of foods, weed overgrowth at the crops expense, increase in parasites, water availability, soil alteration, negative impact on production costs and consequent change in the adopted cultivars, reduction in the pollination process, intense fires, and alteration of product quality. Thus, climate change can impact the provisioning of ecosystem services, reducing food security in terms of quantity and quality for future generations. Finally, in this review, we report the main adaptation strategies to increase agroecosystem resilience in adverse environments generated by climate change. Mainly, we highlight new technologies, such as new breeding technologies and agrivoltaic and smart agricultural applications, which, combined with agroecosystems, can reduce the agricultural risks following climate change (for example, drought events and low availability of water). We suggest that the combination of natural capital and technologies can be defined as an “innovation-based solution” able to support and increase ecosystem service flow in agroecosystems.

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Climate uncertainties and biodiversity: An overview

Cited by 4 publications

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Increase of landscape ecosystem services generated by agrivoltaics systems

Increase of landscape ecosystem services generated by agrivoltaics systems

Science, technology, agri-food systems, health, and wellbeing: logic, dynamics, and relationships

Impact of Climate Change on Agroecosystems and Potential Adaptation Strategies

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