Doctoral School Sustainable Development II - Analysis of the mitigative and adaptive potentials of agrarian land use
Abstract
Global change is characterized by significant changes in environment, climate, demography, policy, economy and culture and becomes apparent at different spatial (global, national, regional and local) and temporal (long-, medium-, and short-term) scales. On the one hand, agriculture contributes to the global change phenomena, for instance through the emission of greenhouse gases. On the other hand, agriculture is highly exposed to global change impacts as climate variability, global markets, and agricultural policies affect farming activities. Therefore, integrative analysis on consequences of global change on agrarian land uses and crop management as well as their mitigative and adaptive potentials are necessary to foster sustainable land use development. The mitigative and adaptive potentials are analysed in an integrated data-modelling framework consisting of data on climate change, soils, topography, crop rotations and crop management as well as the biophysical process model EPIC. The integrated data-modelling framework is able to provide a rich set of environmental and economic indicators (e.g. crop yields, gross margins, resource use, evapotranspiration, nitrogen leaching, and soil organic carbon) on a square kilometre raster for Austria and periods between 1970 and 2040/50. By means of statistical analysis and concepts of risk, the climate change impacts on crop production are analysed in spatial, temporal, and crop management specific contexts to allow assessing the mitigative and adaptative potentials of agrarian land use and crop management in Austria.
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Project staff
Erwin Schmid
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Erwin Schmid
erwin.schmid@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73002
BOKU Project Leader
01.10.2011 - 30.09.2014
Hermine Mitter
Priv.-Doz. DDipl.Ing. Dr. Hermine Mitter
hermine.mitter@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73121
Project Staff
01.10.2011 - 30.09.2014