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Designs of lasting protection measures against extreme climate and of changes in such protection measures do need the strategic use of climate information (e.g. Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate 2007; china’s National Climate Change Programme 2007).
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Stigter, K. (2010). Designs of (Changes in) Protection Measures Against Extreme Climate: Monocropping. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_13
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