Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological
Interface-Building—Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource
Conservation and Livelihood
Development: Epilogue
Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldah, K.V. Raju, Harald Kaechele,
Bill Pritchard and K.S. Rao
Climate change is arguably the single most dominant environmental threat facing
humanity. Its manifestations, particularly through rising temperatures, changing rainfall, sea-level rise and increasing droughts and floods have the potential to adversely
impact natural ecosystems (such as forests, grasslands, rivers and oceans) and
socioeconomic systems (such as food production, fisheries and coastal settlements).
This is adding additional stresses to the ecosystem services, which form a substantial
source of income to the rural inhabitants. It is most proximate and inextricably linked to
well-being, development and economic growth which are part of the eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), which ran from 2000 to 2015. Addressing climate
change requires policy formulation, research, technology transfer and diffusion,
financing and enhancing adaptive capacity of the poor at national, regional as well as
S. Nautiyal (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and
Economic Change (ISEC), Dr. VKRV Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560072, India
e-mail: nautiyal_sunil@yahoo.com
R. Schaldah
Centre for Environmental System Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
K.V. Raju
ICRISAT, Patancheru, India
H. Kaechele
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socio-Economics,
Müncheberg, Germany
B. Pritchard
School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
B. Pritchard
Institute for Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
K.S. Rao
Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
© 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_37
631
and Social-Economic-Ecological
Interface-Building—Exploring Potential
Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource
Conservation and Livelihood
Development: Epilogue
Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldah, K.V. Raju, Harald Kaechele,
Bill Pritchard and K.S. Rao
Climate change is arguably the single most dominant environmental threat facing
humanity. Its manifestations, particularly through rising temperatures, changing rainfall, sea-level rise and increasing droughts and floods have the potential to adversely
impact natural ecosystems (such as forests, grasslands, rivers and oceans) and
socioeconomic systems (such as food production, fisheries and coastal settlements).
This is adding additional stresses to the ecosystem services, which form a substantial
source of income to the rural inhabitants. It is most proximate and inextricably linked to
well-being, development and economic growth which are part of the eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), which ran from 2000 to 2015. Addressing climate
change requires policy formulation, research, technology transfer and diffusion,
financing and enhancing adaptive capacity of the poor at national, regional as well as
S. Nautiyal (&)
Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and
Economic Change (ISEC), Dr. VKRV Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560072, India
e-mail: nautiyal_sunil@yahoo.com
R. Schaldah
Centre for Environmental System Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
K.V. Raju
ICRISAT, Patancheru, India
H. Kaechele
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Socio-Economics,
Müncheberg, Germany
B. Pritchard
School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
B. Pritchard
Institute for Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
K.S. Rao
Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
© 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_37
631