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Provides an umbrella assessment, covering topics from regional climate impacts to policy and response, mitigation and adaptation, all in the Indian context
Includes a synthesis of recent high-impact research findings, supported by lucid facts and figures
Draws on current theory and first-hand experience to show how to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and build adaptive capacity and resilience
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regional Climate Change Signals
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Front Matter
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National and Sub-national Responses to Climate Change
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
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Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, and Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Chandra Venkataraman
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Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, and Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Trupti Mishra
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Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, and Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Subimal Ghosh
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Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, and Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Subhankar Karmakar
About the editors
Chandra Venkataraman is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Associate Faculty at the Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay. She works on environmental and climate science and aerosol nanoparticle engineering. Her research has contributed influential scientific knowledge on black carbon aerosols, climate change and air quality degradation over South Asia. She has built research networks for climate and air quality studies. She is the National Coordinator of the NCAP-COALESCE project leading 17 institutions investigating regional climate impacts of carbonaceous aerosols (MoEFCC). At IIT Bombay, she was instrumental in the establishment of Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies and was Principal Investigator of the DST-supported Centre of Excellence in Climate Studies. She is the recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship (2012), Vikram Sarabhai Award (2005), Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2016), the National Academy of Science, India (2017), and the Indian Academy of Science (2017).
Trupti Mishra is an Associate Professor at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management and Associate Faculty at Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from IIT Kharagpur. Her research interest is focused on economics of pollution, economic assessment of climate change vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation options and corporate environmental sustainability. Her research involves developing different low carbon scenario in sectors, identifying cost-effective mitigation option for industry, suggesting environmental compliances measures to achieve low carbon growth. She has published her research findings in various chapters and journal papers. She is also working on climate change impact and adaptation at city and community level. Her co-authored 2017 publication in Climate and Development (Taylor & Francis) on assessing the socio-economic vulnerability of cities in India received wide mainstream media coverage.
Subimal Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies and a Faculty at the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay. He works in the area of hydro-meteorology. His research interests include climate change impact assessment with statistical downscaling, understanding land surface feedback to monsoon, hydrological simulation and urban extreme rainfall forecasts. He has received several awards in recognition of his research, a few among them being INAE Young Engineer Award, INSA Young Scientist Award, NASI Young Scientist Award and IEI Young Engineer Award. He has published articles in reputed journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports,Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Water Resources Research. He has been selected as one of the lead authors for IPCC Assessment Report 6 for a chapter on extremes by Working Group-I.
Subhankar Karmakar is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, and an associated faculty member at the Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay. He obtained his Ph.D. on “Uncertainty Modelling in Water Resources Systems” from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Further, he received a BOYSCAST Fellowship from the Government of India to pursue research on Ecological Modelling at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. His primary research interests are environmental systems analysis, uncertainty modelling and risk vulnerability analysis to climate-induced natural hazards. Some of his recent research contributions include understanding the dependence of Indian summer monsoon rainfall extremes on temperature, mapping disaster vulnerability for a densely populated coastal urban area, and developing lifecycle-based decision support tools for selecting wastewater treatment alternatives. He has published over 40 international journal papers, 5 chapters and several international conference proceedings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change Signals and Response
Book Subtitle: A Strategic Knowledge Compendium for India
Editors: Chandra Venkataraman, Trupti Mishra, Subimal Ghosh, Subhankar Karmakar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0280-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0279-4Published: 23 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4377-3Published: 16 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0280-0Published: 06 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 303
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Environmental Economics, Climatology, Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts