Climate Change Signals and Response A Strategic Knowledge Compendium for India /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Venkataraman, Chandra (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mishra, Trupti (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ghosh, Subimal (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Karmakar, Subhankar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Climate change.; Environmental economics.; Climatology.; Climate Change.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.

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 clim...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.