Contents
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New Challenges on Natural Resources and their Impact
on Climate Change in the Indian Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Sunil Kumar Srivastava
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Regional Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change:
A Statistical Downscaling Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Nagraj S. Patil and Rajashekhar S. Laddimath
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Flood Risk Assessment for a Medium Size City Using
Geospatial Techniques with Integrated Flood Models . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Surendar Natarajan and Nisha Radhakrishnan
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Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies
for Fruit Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Tanmoy Sarkar, Anirban Roy, Sanvar Mal Choudhary,
and S. K. Sarkar
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Evaluating Adaptation Strategies to Coastal Multihazards
in Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, India, Using Composite
Adaptation Index: A Household-Level Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Mehebub Sahana, Sufia Rehman, Shyamal Dutta, Samsad Parween,
Raihan Ahmed, and Haroon Sajjad
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Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater Resource
of India: A Geographical Appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Sutapa Mukhopadhyay and Amit Kumar Mandal
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Comparison of Classical Mann–Kendal Test and Graphical
Innovative Trend Analysis for Analyzing Rainfall Changes
in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Tapash Mandal, Apurba Sarkar, Jayanta Das, A. T. M. Sakiur
Rahman, and Pradip Chouhan
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