This contributed volume is focused on SDG 3, 6, 7 ,9, 11, 15, and it covers extensive knowledge on damage and loss contexts of climate change in a developing country. India’s vast landscape with its diversity of eco-geo-physiography, socio-cultural, and developmental settings, coupled with climate change and anthropogenic factors, makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries of the world and, thus, representing almost all the disasters and extreme events associated with climate change, variability, and weather phenomenon.
Besides common hazards,such as heavy rainfall, floods, drought, cyclone and heat wave, secondary and composite disasters like forest fires and disease epidemics are also covered with case studies and examples. Cross-cutting aspects like infrastructure resilience, gender and social equity concerns, legal and assessment tools, and futuristic vision have been covered well in the book. Disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and resilienceas central themes of adaptation to climate change are presented through policy discussions, tools, and strategic analysis of past and recent lessons.
This book is of common interest to a wider range of readers across policyplanning, academia, research, and professional practitioners having interest in adaptation, resilience building and sustainability in developing countries of the world. Though it is primarily a reference book, it can also serve as a textbook for university courses and professional trainings in climate change adaptation, disaster management, sustainability and strategic management studies.
Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta is a noted resilience and sustainability strategist, full professor of Policy and Strategies, Integrated Resilience;head of the ECDRM Division, International Cooperation, Director of projects and Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience;and nodal officer for Central Ministries at National Institute of Disaster Management (Govt. of India), New Delhi. He is also a member of the expert team for WMO Climate Statement and core group member of IUCN-Council of Ecosystem Management. He is an elected fellow of Society for Earth Scientists, International Society of Environmental Botany and vice-chair of Association of Occupational & Environmental Health.
Dr. Akhilesh Gupta is the Secretary of Science and Engineering Research Board and Senior Advisor atthe Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India). Dr. Gupta currently heads the Policy Coordination and Programme Management Division (PCPM) division and is the overall in charge of 5 National Missions at DST ---National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical System, National Mission on Quantum Technology and Applications, National Super-computing Mission, National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change and National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. Dr Gupta has to his credit over 200 publications. He is editor of 5 books, author of over 350 articles and nearly 1000 reports. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Indian Meteorological Society (FIMS) and Associationof Agro-meteorologists (FAAM). Dr Gupta has been one of the authors of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) and head of the Secretariat which drafted India’s new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, that is under finalization.
Ms. Pritha Acharya is a research associate at National Institute of Disaster Management (NiDM).is an environmental sustainability and biodiversity professional. She holds expertise in the field of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, nature based solutions and policy planning for disaster, climate resilience and sustainability. She has worked with the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN) for their Business and Biodiversity Programme and is currently looking after the Climate Adaptive Planning for Resilience and sustainability in Multi-hazard Project (CAP-RES ) (DST supported) project at NIDM.
