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Crops and Environmental Change: An Introduction to Effects of Global Warming, Increasing Atmospheric CO2 and O3 Concentrations, and Soil Salinization on Crop Physiology and Yield. S.G. PRITCHARD and J. S. AMTHOR. Food Products Press, an imprint of the Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580.2005. Paperback, 421 pp., $49.95. ISBN 1-56022-913-6.
The world today is faced with great challenges to produce adequate food, fiber, feed, industrial products, and ecosystem services for the Earth's 6.4 billion people. With nearly 80 million added every year, we must develop ecosystem goods and services to meet the needs of 8 billion by the year 2025 and over 10 billion by 2050. Furthermore, with intensive agriculture, soil degradation and particularly salinization are becoming major concerns. Added to these stresses comes a threat - global environmental change resulting from increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere because of anthropogenic activities. Understanding the effects and consequences of all these changes on crop production is the subject of this book, Crops and Environmental Change, by S.G. Pritchard and J.M. Amthor, well-known authorities...