Research Approach to Analyze Climate
Change Impacts in Rural Regions of India
and to Explore Potential Adaptation
Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation
and Livelihood Development
Sunil Nautiyal and Ruediger Schaldach
Abstract This article contains the methodological and theoretical approaches
related to assessing the impacts of various driving forces including climate on the
diverse socio-ecological systems. The detailed description is given to formulate the
appropriate approach in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research for producing
successful outcome that can be implemented for resource management in various
regions having contrast setup in the ecology, climate, and socio-economy. The scientific framework and integrated interdisciplinary approaches described at this
juncture are toward working for complex problems in real world. As a result, realistic
outcomes can be obtained for proposing the solutions so that the goals of sustainable
social and ecological development under changing environment can be achieved.
Keywords Climate change Á Biodiversity conservation Á Land use land cover Á
Agroecological regions Á Remote sensing and GIS Á Landshift model Á
Interdisciplinary modelling
1 Introduction
Climate change is the biggest environmental threat faced by humanity. Climate
change and its manifestations, particularly through rising temperatures, changing
rainfall, sea-level rise and increasing droughts and floods have the potential to
S. Nautiyal (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and
Economic Change, Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560 072, India
e-mail: nautiyal_sunil@rediffmail.com
R. Schaldach
Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
e-mail: schaldach@usf.uni-kassel.de
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_34
561
Change Impacts in Rural Regions of India
and to Explore Potential Adaptation
Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation
and Livelihood Development
Sunil Nautiyal and Ruediger Schaldach
Abstract This article contains the methodological and theoretical approaches
related to assessing the impacts of various driving forces including climate on the
diverse socio-ecological systems. The detailed description is given to formulate the
appropriate approach in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research for producing
successful outcome that can be implemented for resource management in various
regions having contrast setup in the ecology, climate, and socio-economy. The scientific framework and integrated interdisciplinary approaches described at this
juncture are toward working for complex problems in real world. As a result, realistic
outcomes can be obtained for proposing the solutions so that the goals of sustainable
social and ecological development under changing environment can be achieved.
Keywords Climate change Á Biodiversity conservation Á Land use land cover Á
Agroecological regions Á Remote sensing and GIS Á Landshift model Á
Interdisciplinary modelling
1 Introduction
Climate change is the biggest environmental threat faced by humanity. Climate
change and its manifestations, particularly through rising temperatures, changing
rainfall, sea-level rise and increasing droughts and floods have the potential to
S. Nautiyal (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and
Economic Change, Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560 072, India
e-mail: nautiyal_sunil@rediffmail.com
R. Schaldach
Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
e-mail: schaldach@usf.uni-kassel.de
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_34
561