Climate Change Signals and Response

✍ Scribed by Chandra Venkataraman, Trupti Mishra, Subimal Ghosh, Subhankar Karmakar

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Land-Surface Feedback and Impacts of Land-Use Change to Indian Monsoon Rainfall (Amey Pathak, Supantha Paul, Subimal Ghosh)....Pages 3-20
Aerosol Influences on Cloud Modification and Rainfall Suppression in the South Asian Monsoon Region (Prashant Dave, Nitin Patil, Mani Bhushan, Chandra Venkataraman)....Pages 21-37
Future Hydrologic Scenarios in India Under Climate Change (Tarul Sharma, Aditya Gusain, Subhankar Karmakar)....Pages 39-59
Links Between Global Climate Teleconnections and Indian Monsoon Rainfall (S. Adarsh, M. Janga Reddy)....Pages 61-72
Urbanisation and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity (SUHII) (Hiteshri Shastri, Subimal Ghosh)....Pages 73-90
Future Heat Wave Projections and Impacts (Kamal Kumar Murari, Subimal Ghosh)....Pages 91-107
Decadal Estimates of Surface Mass Balance for Glaciers in Chandra Basin, Western Himalayas, India—A Geodetic Approach (RAAJ Ramsankaran, Ankur Pandit, Avinash Parla)....Pages 109-125
An Experimental Approach Toward Modeling Atmosphere and Ocean Mixing Processes (Sridhar Balasubramanian)....Pages 127-146
Nearshore Sediment Transport in a Changing Climate (Piyali Chowdhury, Manasa Ranjan Behera)....Pages 147-160
Front Matter ....Pages 161-161
A Comprehensive Social Vulnerability Analysis at a National Scale (H. Vittal, Subhankar Karmakar)....Pages 163-176
Review of Indian Low Carbon Scenarios (Pankaj Kumar, Trupti Mishra, Rangan Banerjee)....Pages 177-196
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in India’s Road Transport Sector (Namita Singh, Trupti Mishra, Rangan Banerjee)....Pages 197-209
A State-Level Methodology for Estimating Present-Day Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants from Fired Brick Production in India (Kushal Tibrewal, Sameer Maithel, Chandra Venkataraman)....Pages 211-229
Adaptation and its Socioeconomic Facilitators in the Marine Fishing Community of Maharashtra, India (Krishna Malakar, Trupti Mishra)....Pages 231-245
Biodiesel Blending in India—Analysis of National Biofuel Policy (Sreenivas Chigullapalli, Anand B. Rao, Anand Patwardhan)....Pages 247-253
Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages in Climate Change Responses: An Indian Perspective (D. Parthasarathy, Yash Shethia, N. C. Narayanan)....Pages 255-271
Economic Assessment of Climate Mitigation Pathways (2015–2050) for the Brick Sector in India (Priyanka Jajal, Kushal Tibrewal, Trupti Mishra, Chandra Venkataraman)....Pages 273-287
Energy Efficiency Policies in India: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation (Manisha Jain, Anand B. Rao, Anand Patwardhan)....Pages 289-303

✦ Subjects

Environment; Climate Change; Environmental Economics; Climatology; Climate Change Management and Policy; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts