Climate Change : Man and Environment

Contents Preamble 1 Climate change cause and concernAsish Ghosh 2 Climate change impacts adaptation and mitigationSayan Bhattacharya and Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay 3 Impact of climate change on geological systemChittaranjan Bhattacharyya 4 Coal mining and climate change an environmental vistaApurba Ratan Ghosh 5 Understanding change in the glaciers of the Indian HimalayasDivya Mohan and Shirish Sinha 6 Predicted global forest changes apprehensions and realitiesTapan Kr Mishra 7 Human-altered environment and plant communityAsok Kumar Mukherjee 8 Impact of climate change on diversity and distribution of fungal communityPrakash Pradhan and Krishnendu Acharya 9 Climate changes and crop protection an overviewAshim Chowdhury Wasim Akhtar Sujay Saha and Ruchi Garg 10 Global climate change vis-a-vis agriculture and food securityRathindra Narayan Basu 11 Climate change and its impact on Antarctic lifeAsok Kanti Sanyal 12 Climate change and its impact on the distribution of birds in Southern Indian Ocean and AntarcticaK Sivakumar and S Sathyakumar 13 Impact of climate change on soil and soil biotaSubrata Roy 14 Climate change and its impact on Sundarban biosphere reservePranabes Sanyal 15 Climate change and its impact on wetland ecosystemTapan Saha 16 Climate change and its impact on aquatic biodiversityRamakrishna and C Raghunathan 17 Climate change impacts on species conservationDipankar Ghose 18 The changing global climate and future of marine and inland fisheriesAnilava Kaviraj 19 Impact of climate change on human physiology vis-a-vis human healthSomenath Roy 20 Climate change and human healthKrishnangshu Ray 21 Impact of climate change on microbial community with special emphasis on choleraBanwarilal Sarkar 22 Some thoughts on environment and arthropod borne diseases in IndiaAmiya Kumar Hati 23 Birds in a warming world a reviewSubhendu Mazumdar and Goutam Kr Saha 24 Impact of micro and macro level climate change on animal behaviourPulak Lahiri 25 Climate change and biodiversity Indian initiativesRamakrishna IndexClimate change is a hard reality and changing weather patterns retreating glaciers polar ice melt sea level rise increased severity and occurrence of natural disasters like flood super cyclone drought changes in hydrological cycles crisis in freshwater and drinking water resources uncertainty in cereal output increasing vector borne diseases changing migration pattern and flowering time are just some of the consequences already being experienced by us Fragile and delicate ecosystems like coral reefs and mangroves are extremely sensitive to the slightest variation in climate In developing countries like India climate change may contribute an additional burden on ecological and socioeconomic systems associated with rapid urbanization industrialization and economic development Climate Change Man and Environment is an attempt to compile various aspects of climate change its causes and impacts on different facets of life and environment Mass awareness and technical understanding of the cause and impacts of climate change is necessary to adopt necessary mitigationadaptation strategies to ensure out own existence The present compilation is enriched with 25 lead articles contributed by the authorities in their respective fields and is meant to serve as an important resource material for students both undergraduate and postgraduate researchers academicians naturalists environmental and wildlife activists as well as for common people having concern for nature and environment jacket 300 pp.…