Global Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Contents: Preface. 1. Global climate change: concept implications and path to sustainable development/Bharti Singhal and Pankaj Kumar. 2. Contagion effect on climate change vulnerabilities and adaptation in India/Ram Singh Rathor, Rajni Gupta and Pradeep Kumar Punjabi. 3. Climate change: adaptation and mitigation policy of India/Ishita Singh and Ashishek Kumar Srivastava. 4. Climate change and its effects on eco-system and agriculture in Indian economy/Sangita Sitani and Manisha Shukla. 5. Climate change in India: concept impact adaptation mitigation and national action/V.S. Sathe. 6. Climate change: sustainable development by forest management/R.C. Popat. 7. Climate change and tribal economy in Orissa: adaption strategy to avoid it/Minaketan Behera and Awadhesh Kumar. 8. India and the road from copenhagen/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha, Ashwani Kumar and Babita Kumari. 9. The impact of climate change on human population health/M. Muniyandi. 10. Climate change and agriculture in India: need for mitigation and adaptation/Mithilesh Kumar Jha. 11. Mitigation of climate change through the adoption of low thermal emitting household electrical appliances/C. Mayakrishnan. 12. Climate change and problems in Indian agriculture/S.N. Tripathy. 13. Climate change: its impact on food security/Jai Prakash, Sudhir Kumar Gupta and Jagriti. 14. Climate change and development/R.Y. Mahore and Samit L. Mahore. 15. Food security concerns: a review in the context of climate change/Sanjeev Kumar and Geeta Jaglan. 16. AI Gores and Gandhian models toward the causes and consequences of global climate change/G.K. Boodeppa and D.N. Patil. 17. Economics of climate change and agriculture/K.B. Padamdeo, R. Rahman and Sheo Parshan Sharma. 18. Deleterious climatic changes due to transportation sector emissions: a study with special reference to shipping/Vincent S. Jayakumar and S.N. Sukumar. 19. Sustainable development and environment some global issues/Rajender Kumar. 20. Climate change and sustainable development need for alternative paradigm/K.M. Naidu, L.K. Mohan Rao, P. Manjushree and K. Mahesh Naidu. 21. Deforestation climate change and sustainable development in the context of globalization/Somnath Hazra. 22. Climate change development policy and sustainability/Biswajit Chatterjee. 23. The impact of climate change on sustainable development/R. Balasubramaniyan. 24. Climate change economic development and sustainable development: an Indian perspective/Mukti Patel and Mohan Patel. Index.
Climate change is a problem with unique characteristics. It is global in nature and involves complex interaction between climate and environmental economic political institutional social and technological processes transcending national boundaries. The global community has been struggling with the issue of how to effectively respond to the threat of climate change for several decades.
The relationship between humans and the ecology is a vital issue across the world today. The last two decades have raised the specter of environmental disaster on a scale previous generations and scientists could barely have imagined. The entire world is bombarded with climate change climate crisis and global warming and indeed it is a global warning.
This book will enhance the capacity of the readers to understand and analyse the crucial issue pertaining to human existence. The book will enable the readers to respect the nature and appreciate this wonderful creation of the almighty. This book on climate change will benefit of the readers they will be well prepared for the immediate social action with regard to sustainable development. Sustainable development will be helping to the coming generation to cope with the critical situations in their lives. (jacket)
