Handbook Of Climate Change And Agroecosystems: The Agricultural Model Intercomparison And Improvement Project (Agmip) Integrated Crop And Economic Assessments — Joint Publication With Asa, Cssa, And Sssa (In 2 Parts)

Cynthia Rosenzweig is a leader in the field of climate change impacts. She is a senior research scientist at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and a professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Bernard College. She is also a senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She is the co-founder of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), a major international collaboration to improve global agricultural modeling, understand climate impacts on the agricultural sector, and enhance adaptation capacity in developing and developed countries. She was a coordinating lead author on observed climate change impacts for the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment. She was named as one of Nature's "Ten People Who Mattered in 2012". A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she joins impact models with climate models to project future outcomes under altered climate conditions.

Daniel Hillel is a world-renowned environmental scientist and hydrologist. He has worked in Daniel Hillel is a world-renowned environmental scientist and hydrologist. He has worked in over 30 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, with a major focus on the Middle East, where he served as a consultant to the governments of Israel, Pakistan, the Sudan, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, and Cyprus. He has worked as advisor to the World Bank and to the United Nations. His innovative techniques in soil and water management have ameliorated the daily lives of the rural citizens of these countries and of countries on all continents. He was awarded the 2012 World Food Prize for his role in conceiving and implementing micro-irrigation, a radically new mode of bringing water to crops in arid and dryland regions. He has published over 300 scientific papers and manuals on agriculture, the environment, climate change, and water-use efficiency, as well as authored or edited 24 books. These have been adopted by many universities as standard teaching and reference textbooks and translated into ten languages.