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Climate Change Impacts and Implications: An Indian Perspective

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Climate change is one of the most complex global environmental problems, impacting the physical and biological systems of aquatic, terrestrial and marine environments. India is among one of the most vulnerable countries that has already been experiencing changes in climate and the impacts of climate change. Various sectors such as agriculture, forestry, health, socio-economy, etc. have found to be severely affected by the implications of climate change in the country. Significant impacts over the forest ecosystems, global biodiversity and ecosystem integrity have also been observed in recent days. Apart from reduction in forest productivity, a shift in the forest type boundaries along altitudinal and rainfall gradients have been found. Loss of sea ice, rapid warming, and higher organic inputs affect marine and lake productivity, while combined impacts of wildfire and insect outbreaks decrease forest productivity. All these emerging uncertainties due to climate change have found to aggravate the problems of future food security within the country. Despite putting numerous efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, India has failed in responding sufficiently in dealing the issue of climate change. Thus, it is imperative to come up with more effective adaptation and mitigation strategies in order to combat the effects of climate change.

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Abbreviations

TRMM:

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

AVHRR:

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

GOME:

Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

GOMOS:

Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars

ERS:

European Remote Sensing

SCIAMACHY:

Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography

MODIS:

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

SMOS:

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

SPOT:

Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, “Satellite for observation of Earth”

SARAL:

Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa

ALOS PALSAR:

Advanced Land Observation Satellite Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar

AVIRIS:

Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer

NISAR:

NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar

JERS:

Japanese Earth Resources Satellite

RISAT:

Radar Imaging Satellite

ENVISAT:

Environmental Satellite

IRS:

Indian Remote Sensing

UNFCC:

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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    Gajendra Kumar, B. S. P. C. Kishore & Amit Kumar

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Resource Management, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe, Ranchi, 835205, Jharkhand, India

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Kumar, G., Kumari, R., Kishore, B.S.P.C., Saikia, P., Kumar, A., Khan, M.L. (2020). Climate Change Impacts and Implications: An Indian Perspective. In: Roy, N., Roychoudhury, S., Nautiyal, S., Agarwal, S., Baksi, S. (eds) Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6_2

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