Climate Change Impacts and Implications: An Indian Perspective
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mitigation (MoEF 2014). The solar, energy efficiency, and forestry missions of the
action plan include mitigation components in the form of quantified targets while,
missions on sustainable agriculture, water and sustainable Himalayas are purely
adaptive in nature (Rattani 2018). These measures will moderate India’s energy and
emissions-intensive growth, thereby contribute towards the combating the effects of
climate change (Bhandari 2006).
11 Future Research Prospects and Recommendations
• Integration of climate change science into resource management plans and
adaptation actions.
• Historical impacts and future vulnerabilities at the ecosystem level is the major
challenge to manage for potential future conditions, rather than to manage for past
conditions.
• Agro-ecosystems differ in the ways they sustain the farmer’s agility to respond to
external pressures, stresses and fluctuations. Therefore, farmers’ management can
play an important role in adaptation.
• The complex interactions of grazing, inter-annual precipitation variability, precipitation seasonality, fire, and pests can result in rapid ecosystem transitions. These
complex interactions should be studied thoroughly on long term basis to determine
the impacts of climate change at local and regional scales.
• Modeling studies incorporating climate change drivers, land-use data, and ecosystem processes warrants future research.
• Reformation of current agricultural activities to maximize effective availability of
products and adapt in the changing climatic conditions.
• In the present scenario of climate change and land degradation, agroforestry
has real potential to contribute to food security, climate change mitigation and
adaptation, while preserving and strengthening the environmental resource bases.
12 Conclusion
Climate change has been acknowledged very well as a global phenomenon that
impacts societies throughout different scales that ranges from individuals to localities
and entire regions. Various sectors such as coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, water,
human health, energy, transportation, forests, and agricultural productivity are being
subjected to the maximum exposure to climate change in India. The concepts of
resilience and sustainability are well established in agriculture as well as forestry
sectors and can be linked directly to the climate change arena for better adaptations
and mitigations. A number of steps are also being taken by the Indian government
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mitigation (MoEF 2014). The solar, energy efficiency, and forestry missions of the
action plan include mitigation components in the form of quantified targets while,
missions on sustainable agriculture, water and sustainable Himalayas are purely
adaptive in nature (Rattani 2018). These measures will moderate India’s energy and
emissions-intensive growth, thereby contribute towards the combating the effects of
climate change (Bhandari 2006).
11 Future Research Prospects and Recommendations
• Integration of climate change science into resource management plans and
adaptation actions.
• Historical impacts and future vulnerabilities at the ecosystem level is the major
challenge to manage for potential future conditions, rather than to manage for past
conditions.
• Agro-ecosystems differ in the ways they sustain the farmer’s agility to respond to
external pressures, stresses and fluctuations. Therefore, farmers’ management can
play an important role in adaptation.
• The complex interactions of grazing, inter-annual precipitation variability, precipitation seasonality, fire, and pests can result in rapid ecosystem transitions. These
complex interactions should be studied thoroughly on long term basis to determine
the impacts of climate change at local and regional scales.
• Modeling studies incorporating climate change drivers, land-use data, and ecosystem processes warrants future research.
• Reformation of current agricultural activities to maximize effective availability of
products and adapt in the changing climatic conditions.
• In the present scenario of climate change and land degradation, agroforestry
has real potential to contribute to food security, climate change mitigation and
adaptation, while preserving and strengthening the environmental resource bases.
12 Conclusion
Climate change has been acknowledged very well as a global phenomenon that
impacts societies throughout different scales that ranges from individuals to localities
and entire regions. Various sectors such as coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, water,
human health, energy, transportation, forests, and agricultural productivity are being
subjected to the maximum exposure to climate change in India. The concepts of
resilience and sustainability are well established in agriculture as well as forestry
sectors and can be linked directly to the climate change arena for better adaptations
and mitigations. A number of steps are also being taken by the Indian government