Part III Ecosystems and Production System Analyses
Analysis of Policies in Sustaining Sandalwood Resources in India . . . . . 327
M. Srinivasa Rao, G. Ravikumar, P.R. Triveni, V. Soundara Rajan
and Sunil Nautiyal
Monitoring Condition Factor of the Dominant Fin Fishes
in the Estuaries of Lower Gangetic Delta in the Backdrop
of Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Ankita Mitra, Sufia Zaman, Prosenjit Pramanick and Shampa Mitra
Is There a Tomorrow?: The Story of Survival of Sunderbans
Against Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Haimanti Pakrashi
The Population Decline of Indian Sandalwood and People’s
Role in Conservation—An Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
A.N. Arunkumar, Geeta Joshi, M.S. Rao, T.S. Rathore
and V. Ramakantha
Climate Change and Sugarcane Productivity in Karnataka. . . . . . . . . . 389
Arun B. Chandran and K.N. Anushree
Dairy Farming and Organic Farming for Bio-resource
Conservation and Livelihood Development in Tumkur District
Karnataka State-India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
N. Kumara, Nehal A. Farooquee and P.V.K. Sasidhar
Part IV Vulnerability, Sectoral Assessment, Models and
Interfaces
Analysing Vulnerability to Climate Change in India
with Special Reference to Drought Risk: Results
from a Field Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Anu Susan Sam, Azhar Abbas, Muhammad Arshad
and Harald Kächele
An Assessment of Vulnerability of Livestock Farming
to Climate Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
G. Letha Devi, Dhirendra Varma and Mukund A. Kataktalware
Assessment of Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Different
Land Use Land Cover in Honnaver Taluka of Uttara
Kannada District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
A.G. Koppad and Pavan Tikhile
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