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Author : Kaushal Kumar Sharma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031558214
Author : Kaushal Kumar Sharma,Sanjeev Sharma,Vijendra Kumar Pandey,Rupendra Singh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031558200
This contributed volume presents an attempt to understand climatic variability and induced risk to livelihood of communities and to offer insights on how catastrophic conditions and crises can be mitigated through public policy interventions. The case studies herein offer insights into different spheres and domains affected by climate change and present models of adaptation possibilities. The book is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains chapters that deal with assessing the effects of climate change. The second section offers perspectives on adaptation and governance, vulnerability in the context of sustainable livelihoods. The third and last section looks at Policy and Governance, with respect to climatic change adaptation and mitigations. The lessons contained in this volume are useful to a wide audience including research scholars, students, policymakers, and planners.
Author : Md. Nazrul Islam,André van Amstel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030678654
Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as: “Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.” Global climate change has emerged as a key issue in both political and economic arenas. It is an increasingly questioned phenomenon, and progressive national governments around the world have started taking action to respond to these environmental concerns. This book discusses the issue of food and water security in India under the context of climate change. It provides information to scientists and local government to help them better understand the particularities of the local climate. It offers insight into the changes to natural ecosystems which have affected the local Indian population. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges to Indian society. It can lead to serious impacts on production, life and the environment. Higher temperatures and sea level rise can lead to flooding and cause water salinity problems which bring about negative effects on agriculture and high risks to industry and socio-economic systems in the future.
Author : Chandra Venkataraman,Trupti Mishra,Subimal Ghosh,Subhankar Karmakar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811302800
This book provides a synthesis of research findings, in terms of strategic knowledge outcomes regarding emergence of recent regional climate signals, implications for impacts assessment, and mitigation and adaptation response, relevant in the Indian context. The first part discusses evidence of climate change and its underlying scientific processes across India, chiefly focusing on impacts that are already visible and attributable to anthropogenic activities. The latter part deals with the responses to climate change, highlighting the mitigation and adaptation strategies in various sectors and communities. The book presents a concise interpretation, distilling practical recommendations and policy prescriptions at national and sub-national levels. It serves as a reference point for understanding scientific advances and persisting uncertainty, future vulnerability and response capacity of interlinked human and natural systems, pertaining to India. It is an excellent resource for policy makers and industry watchers in addition to the research fraternity.
Author : G. M. Monirul Alam,Michael O. Erdiaw-Kwasie,Gustavo J. Nagy,Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030772598
This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemporary approaches on vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and resilience, which aim to assist its targeted audience (academics, policymakers, and practitioners) to understand and make informed decisions in a wide variety of real-world resilience situations.
Author : Sunil Nautiyal,K.S. Rao,Harald Kaechele,K.V. Raju,Ruediger Schaldach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642361432
Climate change is broadly recognized as a key environmental issue affecting social and ecological systems worldwide. At the Cancun summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 16th Conference, the parties jointly agreed that the vulnerable groups particularly in developing countries and whose livelihood is based on land use practices are the most common victims as in most cases their activities are shaped by the climate. Therefore, solving the climate dilemma through mitigation processes and scientific research is an ethical concern. Thus combining the knowledge systems of the societies and scientific evidences can greatly assist in the creation of coping mechanisms for sustainable development in a situation of changing climate. International Humboldt Kolleg focusing on “knowledge systems of societies and Climate Change” was organized at ISEC. This event was of unique importance, as the year 2011-12 was celebrated as the 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between India and Germany with the motto "Germany and India - Infinite Opportunities." This volume is the outcome of the papers presented during the IHK 2011 at ISEC, India.
Author : Seema Rani,Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030927820
This book provides the world community with the most up-to-date and comprehensive scientific and technical knowledge based on climate change impact assessment, adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Indian Himalayan region. It identifies major issues related to climate change on environmental sustainability, focusing on impact measurement, policy, adaptation and mitigation strategies at national, regional and local scales. There is a need to strengthen the global response in order to cope with the threat of climate change. The main objective of this book is to update the understanding of scientific analysis and to promote evidence-based policy formulation at regional and local levels. This book on climate change is used as a reference material to climate change for new learners interested in the mountainous region of the Indian Himalayas. This comprehensive book covers a wide range of potential research areas including climate change scenarios, science and its applications, adaptation to climate change theory and assessment, water resources, agriculture, human health, forest, biodiversity, ecosystems, indigenous knowledge, etc.
Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319582146
This unique book provides a multidisciplinary review of current, climate-change research projects at universities around the globe, offering perspectives from all of the natural and social sciences. Numerous universities worldwide pursue state-of-the-art research on climate change, focussing on mitigation of its effects as well as human adaptation to it. However, the 2015 Paris 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (COP 21)” demonstrated that there is still much room for improvement in the role played by universities in international negotiations and decision-making on climate change. To date, few scientific meetings have provided multidisciplinary perspectives on climate change in which researchers across the natural and social sciences could come together to exchange research findings and discuss methods relating to climate change mitigation and adaption studies. As a result the published literature has also lacked a broad perspective. This book fills that gap and is of interest to all researchers and policy-makers concerned with global climate change regardless of their area of expertise.
Author : Pawan Sikka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 8176580597
Climate Change due to the global warming is taking the Earth to a tipping point. Is is a harsh reality in extreme environments. India has prepared a National action Plan on Climate Change 2008 in response to her current vulnerability to climate change & strong commitment to sustainable development through energy eficiency and conservation of natural resources guided and driven by science & technology advancements and eight national missions are being set up besides expressing her concern on the subject in her national policies for integrating energy generation (2008), protecting the environment( 2007), agricultural production (2007) and human health (2002) apart from creating the PMs council of climate change, Ministries nad institutional Infrastructure towards mitigating the serious impact of climate change. Steps have already been taken to Combat Climate Change in Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, North East, Pune, Uttarakhand etc in the country. Also, the current developments, debates, policy issues challenges facing India & world due to global warming and climate change in terms of disaster mitigation & adaptation are covered in this book. A reference book for the policy planners, energy and environment researches on the science of climate change students etc.
Author : Azizur Rahman Siddiqui,Avijit Sahay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030910105
This volume examines how local communities respond and adapt to ecological changes and disasters resulting from climate change. The main aim of the book is to understand the range of human responses to ecological change and to contextualise the reasons for adopting any particular adaptive strategy by a community. Through the help of specific case studies presented as individual chapters, the book aims to find out whether adaptation due to environmental stress is an individual decision and, therefore, is an isolated phenomenon, or if resilience and adaptation are part of the same action paradigm of society as a whole in response to environmental change. Of particular interest are the case studies of climate change or disasters that have rendered the site unsuitable for the return of its community at present, and thus necessitated the relocation of such communities to new locations. The case studies in the book focus on regions in India, but cover different parts of the world as well, and address concepts of resilience, vulnerability, risk, adaptation, and mitigation. The book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of geography, disaster management, environmental science, and anthropology.
Author : Akimasa Sumi,Kensuke Fukushi,Ai Hiramatsu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431997986
In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of how intricate the interactions are between human beings and the environment. Fortunately, progress has been made in understanding this relationship, and new technologies have been effective in addressing environmental problems. However belatedly, there has been an acknowledgment of the incompatibility of the world's finite resources with humankind's increasingly greater needs for them, and of how such a challenge demands broadened collaboration among engineers, social scientists, politicians and financial powers. Global agreement that the essential issues of the twenty-first century cannot be solved by any one discipline has led to the concept of sustainability. The transdisciplinary contributions selected for inclusion in this book address these concerns with an overview of the diverse fields of study related to sustainability. This collection of work is intended to pave the way for further collaboration among scientists and nations as well. Chapter “Economy and Environment: How to Get What We Want” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Sushil Kumar Dash
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015081840376
The disturbing changes occurring in the global climate and environment has been a matter of concern for the current generation. The issue of climate change due to human activities can be analysed under two broad categories: emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) and the nearly irreversible damage to the environment. Reducing emissions of GHGs is intimately connected with economic issues and hence a matter of global politics. It needs to be handled through global negotiations and, ultimately, through the use of alternate sources of energy and clean technology. The second category is more dangerous, since the recovery process will be extremely slow and the corrective measures more complicated than those for the GHG abatement. Large-scale mass movements, and not mere government policies or laws, are necessary to tackle this factor.
Author : Anil Markandya,Arabinda Mishra
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788179933886
Costing Adaptation discusses the various salient points on the costs of adaptation, with specificreference to India. It looks at the key areas of health, coastal zones, water, agriculture, forests,and ecosystems, and evaluates the feasible measures needed to reduce the negative impacts ofclimate change. The costs of these measures are enumerated in the book and compared to currentand projected programmes. The book covers the various aspects involved in understandingadaptation to climate change in India, and estimating the costs of dealing with it and assessingwhere the expenditures have to be directed so that poor and vulnerable people are not worse offas a result of the climate change.
Author : R. Krishnan,J. Sanjay,Chellappan Gnanaseelan,Milind Mujumdar,Ashwini Kulkarni,Supriyo Chakraborty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811543272
This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate change projections based on the climate models used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and climate change modeling studies using the IITM Earth System Model (ESM) and CORDEX South Asia datasets. The IPCC assessment reports, published every 6–7 years, constitute important reference materials for major policy decisions on climate change, adaptation, and mitigation. While the IPCC assessment reports largely provide a global perspective on climate change, the focus on regional climate change aspects is considerably limited. The effects of climate change over the Indian subcontinent involve complex physical processes on different space and time scales, especially given that the mean climate of this region is generally shaped by the Indian monsoon and the unique high-elevation geographical features such as the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Tibetan Plateau and the adjoining Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. This book also presents policy relevant information based on robust scientific analysis and assessments of the observed and projected future climate change over the Indian region.
Author : Fazal Ahmed Khan,Jatin Modi,Ranjit Chavan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482843392
The ongoing global warming is setting off changes in global climatewhat has come to be known as climate changewith dire consequences on the ecosystem of the earth and on human life, being experienced by the world for over the last many decades in the form of climatic extremes, erratic rainfall, floods, droughts, cyclones, having adverse impact on water resources, agriculture, health, human settlements, biodiversity, loss of glaciers, rise in sea level, ocean acidification, etc. All these have been scientifically established through the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The causes of this rising threat are mainly indiscriminate human activities of burning of fossil-fuels, deforestation, intensive agriculture, and animal husbandry, industrial emissions, etc., causing continual rise of emissions of greenhouse gases. The general perception is that decision making and action is slow, and the threat is increasing by the day. There is lack of public awareness toward the danger. Since human activities are the cause, it is through modification of human activities that the danger can be averted. The purpose of this book is to explain the whole phenomenon of climate change in easy language and lucid style, for creating public awareness. Aware people can prevail upon the governments and authorities to take up the mitigation and adaptation efforts in right earnest, and also on their part, they can conduct their daily activities with thought of abating the challenge.
