Surendra N. Kulshreshtha

University of Saskatchewan Canada

Surendra N. Kulshreshtha is a professor emeritus in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. His areas of research include agroforestry and shelterbelts, irrigation water management, economic impact analysis, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. He has edited or coedited 10 books and contributed 91 chapters in books and 178 journal articles. He has been a visiting scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis at Laxenburg, Austria, as well as a visiting professor at the Virginia Polytechnique Institute at Blacksburg and the MacDonald College at McGill University. He has served as an editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and an associate editor of the Canadian Water Resources Journal.

3books edited

5chapters authored

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This book, Sustainable Forest Management - Surpassing Climate Change and Land Degradation, is devoted to important issues forest managers face. Besides managing forest resources, the issues addressed include aspects of climate change, biodiversity conservation, and agroforestry. The book contains four sections, each devoted to this set of topics. Forest management is very important in the context of sustainable use of resources. To achieve this, forest management should aim at improving economic profitability for the investors, preserve the ecosystem structure to serve society, and maintain all (physical, economic, social, and other) ecosystem functions. All these aspects of forest management have been addressed in various chapters of this book. The editor sincerely hopes this will be a welcome addition to the field of forest management.

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Sustainable Forest Management

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By S. Kulshreshtha, B. G. McConkey, T. T. Liu, J. A. Dyer, X. P. C. Vergé and R. L. Desjardins

Part of the book: Environmental Impact of Biofuels

Integration of Farm Fossil Fuel Use with Local Scale Assessments of Biofuel Feedstock Production in Canada

By J.A. Dyer, R.L. Desjardins, B.G. McConkey, S. Kulshreshtha and X.P.C. Verge

Part of the book: Biofuels

Challenges and Opportunities in Estimating the Value of Goods and Services in Temperate Grasslands — A Case Study of Prairie Grasslands in Manitoba, Canada

By Suren Kulshreshtha, Michael Undi, Jing Zhang, Mohammad Ghorbani, Karin Wittenberg, Ashley Stewart, Esther Salvano, Ermias Kebreab and Kimberly Ominski

Part of the book: Agroecology

Introductory Chapter: Agricultural Economics

By Surendra N. Kulshreshtha

Part of the book: Agricultural Economics

Resiliency of Prairie Agriculture to Climate Change

By Surendra Kulshreshtha

The Prairie Region, consisting of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, is a major agricultural region of Canada. Climate change will have a significant impact on its agriculture and through these changes on related industries in the region, as well as on other parts of Canada and rest of the world. This study is a synthesis of literature on various aspects of climate change—impacts, adaptation, and knowledge gaps for the Prairie Region. These impacts include potential to increase crop production through higher yields, improved livestock productivity, and higher income for producers through higher export sales. Agriculture may also expand to higher latitude areas that are currently not capable of sustaining such an activity. However, the dampening effect on the region would be through higher frequency of extreme events—droughts and floods. In spite of positive effect of climate change on the region, adaptation to climate change by producers will be virtually necessary. Producers are willing to adopt such measures, although there are major knowledge gaps in how climate change would affect and how one can adapt to it. Major uncertainties are carbon fertilization, ability of northern areas to sustain production with shifting ecozones, and impact of new pest and diseases, among others, which may affect the degree of resiliency of the prairie agriculture to climate change. This review concludes that the prairie agriculture is resilient except under prolong and intense extreme events and lack of adaptation to them.

Part of the book: Climate Change and Agriculture

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Sustainable Forest Management

Books edited

Sustainability Concept In Developing Countries

Agricultural Economics

Current Perspective on Irrigation and Drainage

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