A P Mitra

Global Environmental Changes in South Asia: A Regional Perspective A P Mitra 2010 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Jointly published with Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi. Table of Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1. Hutman Dimensions of Changing Environment / A. P. Mitra -- 2. Development Pathway / Joyashree Roy, Chhonda Bose, Ranjan Bose, Sarmistha Das, Shobhankar Dhakal, Mitali Dasgupta, Rucha Ghate, Saikat Sinha Roy, Manaswita Konar, Anoja Wickramasinghe, Moumita Roy, Chetana Chaudhuri -- 3. Instrumental, Terrestrial and Marine Records of the Climate of South Asia during the Holocene: Present Status, Unresolved Problems and Societal Aspects / A. K. Singhvi, K. Rupakumar, M. Thamban, A. K. Gupta, V. S. Kale, R. R. Yadav, A. Bhattacharyya, N. R. Phadtare, P. D. Roy, M. S. Chauhan, O. S. Chauhan, S. Chakravorty, M. M. Sheikh, N. Manzoor, M. Adnan, J. Ashraf, Arshad M. Khan, D. A. Quadir, L. P. Devkota, A. B. Shrestha -- 4. Land Transformation and Its Consequences in South Asia / V. K. Dadhwal, A. Velmurugan -- 5. Atmospheric Composition Change and Air Quality / A. Jayaraman, G. Beig, U. C. Kulshrestha, T. Lahiri, M. R. Ray, S. K. Satheesh, C. Sharma, C. Venkataraman -- 6. Global Warming, Changes in Hydrological Cycle and Availability of Water in South Asia / M. Monirul Qader Mirza, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed -- 7. A Review on Current Status of Flood and Drought Forecasting in South Asia / M. Monirul Qader Mirza -- 8. Hydrometeorology of Floods and Droughts in South Asia - A Brief Appraisal / S. Nandargi, O. N. Dhar, M. M. Sheikh, Brenna Enright, M. Monirul Qader Mirza -- 9. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Stream-flows in the Greater Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Basins - A Climate Outlook / Md. Rashed Chowdhury -- 10. Changes in the Coastal and Marine Environments / S. N. de Sousa, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed, M. D. Kumar, T. G. Jagtap, S. Sardessai, A. Hassan -- 11. Key Vulnerabilities of Human Society in South Asia to Climate Change and Adaptation Issues and Strategies / Sumana Bhattacharya -- Index. Publisher Marketing: The Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC having clinched in 2007 the evidence of global warming on account of anthropogenic activities, backed with scientific data gathered and analyzed globally, has made it mandatory world over to focus efforts on delineation of the anticipated adverse impacts of global warming on regional temperature and moisture regimes and the linked hydrologic, climatic and biospheric processes. First and foremost is the requirement to understand vulnerability to food and livelihood security in various ecosystems on mainland, mid-range and high mountains as well as coastal areas including CEZs. The projected global temperature rise of the order of about two degrees or more and further rise at a decadal rate of o around 0. 2 C is sufficient to make grievous changes in sea surface level and submerge many low lying coastal areas around the world thereby possibly causing unprecedented losses to human habitat and livelihood in the coming years. A rise in climate variability is also becoming increasingly evident with potential direct impact on agricultural performance, on water accessibility and on weather extremes. Developing countries due to their poor infrastructure, limited resources and large impoverished population are likely to face more intense and wi- spread adverse impact of climate change than the developed world and also have limited adaptation capacity."