With the growing need to have a better response mechanism to the challenge of climate change, it is pertinent for policy makers and planners to understand the interlinkage and complexity between development and environment. It is especially important to understand the human and natural factors that ...
The “monsoon downpour” that triggered deadly landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district last month was made 10 per cent heavier by human-caused climate change, a new rapid attribution study says. Attribution is a fast-growing field of climate science that aims to identify the “fingerprin...
Climate changeMitigationAdaptationSustainable developmentAichi targetIPCCOcean acidificationClimate change is a vital environmental issue affecting nature and distribution of biodiversity. As the economy of developing countries depends primarily upon climate-sensitive sectors such as......
Even though the Western Ghats are one of theworst-hit areasin terms of climate change-triggered casualties, especially from landslides and agricultural loss, the electoral politics of the region largely revolve around conventional issues. The attitude in the Western Ghats is in stark contrast to Eur...
Resolving global-scale climate change impacts on coastal processes and atmospheric–ocean–wave interactions requires a step-up in observational and modeling capabilities, including enhanced spatiotemporal resolution and coverage of observations, more homogeneous data products, multidisciplinary model improvement,...
climate change impact on land use in Alappuzha District, Kerala, climate change impact on biodiversity in the Sundarbans, modeling for rainfall prediction at Surat city in Gujarat, the impact of land surface temperature on the ecosystem, carbon footprint in India and south-east Asia in comparison...
Evaluating the impacts of anticipated sea level rise, climate change and land use land cover scenarios on the rice crop in Alappuzha, Kerala and strategies... Alappuzha is known as the rice bowl of Kerala; however, it is highly exposed to climate vulnerability in terms of its unique environmen...
Hospitals and public health professionals are first responders to the health effects of climate change, but their ability to respond can be affected by vulnerable health systems. In that context, Kerala state in India has piloted climate-resilient primary health centres in areas that were affected ...
作者: Gopikrishna VG, Ambily PG 摘要: A Study on the Scope and Importance of Tuber Crops with Special Reference to Cassava as Resilient Crop towards Climate Change Abstract. 关键词: Climate changeAgricultureTuber cropsCassava DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000202 被引量: 1 年份: 2014 收藏...
Among these nations, Bangladesh, positioned downstream of the Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Meghna (GBM) Basins, faces acute challenges intensified by climate change. This chapter explores the impacts of climate variability on the water sector in South Asia, emphasising the GBM basins. It highlights the ...