Climate Change Signals and Response, 1st ed. 2019 A Strategic Knowledge Compendium for India

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.

Section I: Regional Climate Change Signals.- 1. Land surface feedback and impacts of land use change to Indian Monsoon Rainfall.- 2. Intraseasonal short-term suppression of monsoon by aerosols.- 3. Future hydrologic scenarios in India under climate change.- 4. Links between global climate teleconnections and Indian monsoon rainfall.- 5. Urbanisation and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity (SUHII).- 6. Future Heat Wave Projections and Impacts.- 7. Decadal GMB Estimations for Glaciers in Western Himalayas.- 8. Atmosphere and ocean mixing processes.- 9. Nearshore Sediment Transport in a Changing Climate.- Section II: National and Sub-national Responses to Climate Change.- 10. A comprehensive social vulnerability analysis at a national scale.- 11. Review of energy-economics modelling for India.- 12. Sectoral energy intensity and climate impact.- 13. Scenarios of SLCP emissions and mitigation pathways to 2050.- 14. Drivers of climate change adaptation and measurement of adaptive capacity.- 15. Carbon Mitigation Potential of Alternative Bioenergy Pathways.- 16. Cross sectional institutional linkages in climate change responses.- 17. Present day emissions and low carbon growth pathways for the brick sector.- 18. Consumer response to policy interventions in energy efficiency: Climate policy implication.

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&n

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