Climate Change, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation, 1st ed. 2024 Understanding and Addressing Threats with Insights for Policy and Practice

This contributed volume offers a wide variety of cases exploring how humanity can adapt to a changing climate. The volume features a wide variety of contributions from geographers, primarily in India but with plenty of global cases to provide a broad comparative perspective. A primary goal of this book is to bridge the gap from conceptual and data-driven analysis of climate change and adaptation to practical planning approaches and strategies. The book compiles contributions that address human well-being and environmental effects related to climate change, including analysis and modelling of ecosystem services, socio-ecological research and sustainable governance of ecosystems. Results reported in this book are conducive to a better understanding of the climate emergency, climate-related impacts and adaptation and mitigation strategies. The cases here also provide researchers with new examples of applications of vulnerability assessment methods. The volume offers insights regardingvulnerable areas in India, an exploration of how some regions have coped with these issues, and a discussion of the impacts that public policy has had on vulnerability in the regions studied. The focus on vulnerability will assist decision-makers in and outside India in targeting policies aimed at poverty reduction in agricultural communities as well. Though the cases here primarily focus on India, the methodologies presented here are transferable to many other parts of the world.

Chapter 1. Risk and Resilience in Indian cities: Floods, heat islands and the work of Professor R B Singh.- Chapter 2. Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Sustainable Urban Development in Coastal Regions: Selected Case Studies of India.- Chapter 3. Climate change and cyclones its associate consequences in Tamil Nadu coastal cities of Chennai and Thoothukudi.- Chapter 4. Climate Change and Weather Extremes in Tourist Towns: Challenges for Livelihood in Himachal Pradesh, India.- Chapter 5. Effect of Urban Heat Island on Local Climatic Zones using remote sensing and statistical analysis in Khartoum, Sudan.- Chapter 6. A preliminary investigation into the social perceptions of urban people exposed to river floods.- Chapter 7. Determining the Impact of Land Use/Land Cover on Microclimate with reference to Thermal Variability in Srinagar Municipal Corporation.- Chapter 8. Variations in Rainfall in India: Is it evidence of Climate Change?.- Chapter 9. Potential effects of climate changein saline shallow lakes in the north of Chile (Salar de Atacama, 23°S, Chile) and south Lipez of Bolivia (Khalina lake, 22.61ºS).- Chapter 10. Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Karakoram dynamics: A case Study of Ghulkin Glacier, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.- Chapter 11. Monitoring spatio-temporal pattern of meteorological drought stress using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) over Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India.- Chapter 12. Climate Change and Forest Fire in Eastern Himalaya: A Case study of Sikkim and Darjeeling Himalayas of West Bengal.- Chapter 13. Flood disaster risk governance in the changing climate contexts.- Chapter 14. Modelling Potential Zones of Gangotri Glacier using GIS and ML in the Wake of Physio-climatic Factors.- Chapter 15. Analyzing the household level adaptation to flood hazard in Bhagirathi Sub-basin of West Bengal, India: A concern for mitigation.- Chapter 16. Farmers in the Environment of Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation and Coping Strategies in West Bengal.- Chapter 17. Modelling the impact of climatic parameters on dynamics of malaria transmission in Chhattisgarh state of India.- Chapter 18. Statistical Analysis of Rainfall and Temperature Variability in Chotanagpur Plateau, India.- Chapter 19. Experience of Climate Change and Adaptation in Daily Living: Evidence from the Suru Valley of Ladakh Region.- Chapter 20. Unveiling Precipitation and Temperature Patterns in Kashmir Valley, India.- Chapter 21. The review of potential applications and modification approaches of SWAT for efficient environmental management, an engineering approach.

Dr. Singh’s research work is original and outstanding. Her work has won few laurels like DAAD Fellow (2000) ‘Citation for outstanding contribution in the field of Environmental issues ‘, by CLUMA, NRSA, DOS etc. (2005), Basic Science Research Award by UGC (2011), Professor Emeritus by UGC (2011) and National Fellowship (2011) etc. Her notable works include research projects , titled ‘ Aligarh Environment Study’ (1992-95 sponsored by IIED, London,CSE, Delhi), ‘Modelling of city structure for a better Urban Environmental Management’ (2000-02,sponsored by DAAD, Leipzig,Germany, DST, Delhi), ‘Women’s Work and Health in rural areas (2001-04, UGC), Urban Sprawl causes, consequences and policies (2008-11, UGC ) and ‘Urban Rural Linkages and Environmental Issues ‘ (2011-14, BSR-UGC). She has successfully guided 31 M.Phil. and PhD thesis. She is a member of enumerable academic and professional societies, viz; Full Member of International Geographical Union Commission on Marginal and Critical Regions; correspon