Environmental threats, vulnerability, and adaptation: case studies from India
- Author(s): TERI
- Size: 140 mm x 210 mm
- Pages: 266
- Binding: Paperback
- Weight: 350 gms
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788179930427
- Cover Price:
Rs.400.00 / US $24.00
- Special Price: Rs. 360.00 / US $22.00
Book Details
Human vulnerability can stem from both natural and human-induced environmental threats. The latter, manifested through pollution of water resources, unsustainable agricultural policies and practices, industrial pollution, land-use change and degradation, and the former, manifested through floods, droughts, and cyclones, bring to the fore issues related to human vulnerability and coping capacities. Insights from engaging with these issues can be used as lessons for strengthening adaptation responses to climate change. This book is a compilation of working papers focusing on vulnerability and adaptation responses, authored by researchers of The Energy and Resources Institute. It presents an overview of the key environmental challenges that face the developing countries, discusses it through case studies from India, and outlines existing adaptation approaches.
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Issues
Environmental vulnerability: the climate
change and sustainable development context
Preety Bhandari
Poverty and vulnerability: linking environmental
and socio-economic dimensions of adaptation
Ulka Kelkar
Section 2: Approaches
An approach to assessing vulnerability and
coping strategies
Ligia Noronha
GIS application in mapping vulnerability
to multiple stressors for the agricultural sector in India
Suruchi Bhadwal, Akram Javed, and Ulka Kelkar
Section 3: Learning from case studies
Impact of climate change on hydrology for
better decision-making at a river basin level in India: a case study
Kapil K Narula and Suruchi Bhadwal
Vulnerability to water-related stress: case
studies in rural India
Rekha Krishnan, Suruchi Bhadwal, Akram Javed, Shaleen Singhal, and S Sreekesh
Mediating scarcity by design: water rights
and legal pluralism in protective irrigation
Vishal Narain
Water scarcity and institutional adaptation:
lessons from four case studies
Vishal Narain
Relative vulnerability of districts to a
potential sealevel rise along the coastline of India
Ligia Noronha, B S Choudri, and K S Nairy
Impact of sea-level rise on salt-water intrusion
in Goa
Ligia Noronha, A G Chachadi, and B S Choudri
The rising seas: need for a longer-term perspective
in coastal planning and adaptation for developing countries
Ligia Noronha
Potential impact of climate change on forests:
a case study in Uttaranchal
Varghese Paul, T P Singh, and Arundhati Das
Joint forest management in Haryana: interventions
and socio-economic impacts
Sumana Datta, Chetan Kumar, and Varghese Paul
Section 4: An approach to vulnerability reduction
Towards a new paradigm of poverty alleviation
and vulnerability reduction
R K Pachauri
Index
Keywords
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