Quality of Life and Climate Change: Impacts, Sustainable Adaptation, and Social-Ecological Resilience

Quality of Life and Climate Change: Impacts, Sustainable Adaptation, and Social-Ecological Resilience
Author: Shukla, Kasturi
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1668498642

Quality of Life and Climate Change: Impacts, Sustainable Adaptation, and Social-Ecological Resilience delves into the pressing concerns surrounding climate change and its profound impacts on the quality of life (QoL) experienced by individuals and communities worldwide. This book explores the intricate relationship between climate change, variability, and QoL in both rural and urban settings. It undertakes a detailed review of QoL assessments to examine the extent to which climatic changes and livability conditions are incorporated into existing evaluations. By shedding light on the critical need to consider climatic factors in measuring and comparing QoL, especially in the context of creating aging-friendly and climate-neutral cities, this publication addresses a significant research gap. This book presents prospective themes, including sustainable solutions, mitigation strategies, and models to enhance socio-ecological resilience. The chapters within the book cover a wide range of topics including climatic variations and future projections, technological advancements in climate change mitigation, implications for residential and non-residential areas, industrial solutions, SDG attainment, mitigation strategies, QoL measurement instruments, and urban QoL models. By addressing these themes, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complex interactions between climate change, QoL, and the pursuit of sustainable development. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, academicians, policymakers, civil society groups, think tanks, government and non-government organizations, international agencies, and other interested parties seeking to deepen their knowledge and capacity in the field of climate change and its impacts on QoL and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) attainment.

The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

The Palgrave Handbook of Socio-ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
Author: Sunil Nautiyal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9819922062

This book shares experiences and knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation, risk reduction strategies, communities’ responses, and best practices from different landscapes of India. It provides insights into climate change risk reduction in trans-disciplinary frameworks. The findings and discussions put forward in the chapters, largely based on micro-level case studies, provide an in-depth understanding of interactions among ecology, society, and economy under different conditions of changing climate. It contains critical discussion on both existing and required actions as adjustments to climate change impacts by different actors at diverse scales and contexts. The recommendations will be beneficial in climate change adaptation planning for India and other developing countries, where a large portion of the population directly depends on climate-sensitive sectors. The content of the book is interdisciplinary and it will be beneficial for scholars and practitioners from natural science, social science, policy, and governance across the continents.

Climate Crisis: Adaptive Approaches and Sustainability

Climate Crisis: Adaptive Approaches and Sustainability
Author: Uday Chatterjee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031443977

This book aims to contribute to the discourse on climate crisis by bringing together high-quality empirical research on adaptive approaches and sustainability case studies from across the world. The book is divided into six sections. The introductory section has two chapters which sets the ground of the book as it discusses the framing of climate crisis and the different approaches towards it. It also situates the book within the global discourse. The first chapter seeks the traditional approaches to bridge the gap in the new climate science, while the second chapter delivers the ultimate reasons for temperature change, global warming and its consequences (extreme weather events) in a comprehensive way. It is hoped that the book as a whole will provide a timely synthesis of a rapidly growing and important field of climate science but will also bring forward new and stimulating ideas that will shape a coherent and fruitful vision for future work for the community of Undergraduates, Postgraduates, Ph.D. Scholars and Researchers in the fields of environmental sciences, humanistic and social sciences and geography. In addition, policy and decision makers, environmentalists, NGOs, corporate sectors, social scientists, and government organizations will find this book to be of great value. We believe that a diverse group of academics, scientists, geographers, environmentalists, environmental regulators, social scientists, and sustainable scientists with a common interest within the earth environmental sciences and humanistic and social sciences will find this book to be a comprehensive source for reference. Also, we strongly deemed that it will also provide some support for various levels of organizations and administrations for developing and achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 in purview of climate change.

MGNREGS AND LIVELIHOOD RESPONSES

MGNREGS AND LIVELIHOOD RESPONSES
Author: Sarmistha Saha
Publisher: CSMFL Publications
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8193782488

The study of livelihood is popular among social scientists in recent times. One of the important aspects of the assessment of livelihood is the responses generated through the implementation of social policies. MGNREGA, the landmark act for the generation of rural livelihood worth discussion. The act and its outcome, MGNREGS has discussed variously by various author in last decade. This book tries to provide a geographical explanation of the same. Written in a very simple and lucid language, this book considers the empirical work based on both primary and secondary data. This book will help the students of geography, policy studies and rural development of different universities and institutions.

Environment and Earth Observation

Environment and Earth Observation
Author: S. Hazra
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-09-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319460102

This book presents relevant and contemporary research on the remote sensing of landscapes, agriculture & forestry, geomorphology, coasts & oceans, natural hazards and wild habitats. It highlights the application of remote sensing in understanding natural processes and oceanic features, as well as in creating mapping inventories of water resources across different spatial and temporal scales. Recent advances in hyperspectral imaging and high spatial resolution offer promising techniques for exploring various aspects related to the fruitful and cost-effective monitoring of large-scale environments. In the field of forestry and agriculture, the book addresses topics such as terrain analysis, forest management, updating current forest inventories, and vegetation cover type discrimination. It also elaborates delineation of various geo-morphological features of the earth’s surface and natural disasters, and includes a special section on the remote sensing of wild habitats. Readers working in interdisciplinary sectors engaged in remote-sensing-based research benefit from the techniques presented.

Evaluating policy coherence in food, land, and water systems: evidence from India

Evaluating policy coherence in food, land, and water systems: evidence from India
Author: Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
Publisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The critical interlinkages among the food, land, and water (FLW) systems are complex and context-specific. There has been limited research on how policies governing one resource have deep implications for the other linked resources. Further, the process of developing policies is highly complex, and each evolves differently. In addition, policy changes are implemented in response to socio-cultural, economic, environmental, and political changes. Thus, individual policies may develop conflicting priorities and effects. To ensure the effectiveness of national policies and strategies, it is crucial to gather context-specific evidence on the coherence between policies governing FLW systems and address points of incoherence. Policy coherence is important to identify and strengthen synergies across economic, social, and environmental policy areas and address any trade-offs1 between them to align domestic policy objectives with internationally agreed objectives. The study offers key evidence-based recommendations to address the identified gaps and challenges in the selected national policies, which are essential for enhancing policy coherence.