Climate Change and Biodiversity

The over-exploitation of important earth resources such as land and water has led to a number of environment-related problems the world over. At the same time, land-use change caused by various human activities has led to extinction of many plant and animal habitats and species. In this context, the relevance of biodiversity for human survival is becoming a major international political issue as scientific evidence builds on the global health implications of biodiversity loss. These issues are closely linked with the issue of climate change, as many of the health risks due to climate change are associated with rapid degradation of biodiversity. This present work focuses on holistic natural resource-based spatio-temporal planning, development, and management and considers them as essential to save the degraded ecosystem for sustainable resource management. Contributions are compiled in two volumes: 1. Climate Change and Biodiversity and 2. Landscape Ecology and Water Management. Geoinformatics along with its tools such as remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS) have been used in assessing the results of various environmental problems both physical and social. The volume will be useful for geographers, geoscientists, hydrologists, landscape ecologists, environmentalists, engineers, planners and policy makers.

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Climate change and glacial lake outburst floods in Himachal Himalaya, India.- Climate Change Variability in Coastal Karnataka, India.- Assessment of Climate Induced Soil Salinity Conditions of Gosaba Island, West Bengal and Its Influence on Local Livelihood.- Long term Rainfall Trend Analysis (1871-2011) for Whole India.- Analysing Meteorological and Vegetative Drought in Gujarat.- Multiple Linear Regression Based Statistical Downscaling of Daily Precipitation in a Canal Command.- Drought Monitoring of Chhattisgarh Using Different Indices Based on Remote Sensing Data.- Historical temporal trends of climatic variables over Kashmir valley and discharge response to climate variability in Upper Jhelum Catchment.- Carbon Sequestration in soils of different land use system in Sirsi taluka of Uttara Kannada district through Geo-informatics approach.- Land cover change and rhino habitat mapping of Kaziranga National Park, Assam.- Land Use & Land Cover Change Along Shivaliks Between River Ghagghar and Yamuna.- Land Cover/ Biodiversity Change and People Well-Being in Russia.- Public Perception on Endangerment of Hornbills: A Field Study on Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh.- Potential of Earthworms in Bioconversion of Organic Solid Waste.- Impact of Organic Farming in Enhancing the Soil Microbial Pool.- Risk of Bio-diversity Degradation in North-east India and Prospect of Management with Geoinformatics: A Case Study of Assam.- Changing Habitat and Elephant Migration from Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand to Panchet Forest Division, Bankura, West Bengal: A Biogeographical Analysis.- What Can Human Geog-raphy Offer Climate Change Modelling?.- Modelling of Dynamic Relationship between Socio-economic Changes and Deforestation in Kolasib District of Mizoram.- Degradation of Land and Forest Resources: The Story of Shifting Cultivation and Loss of Biodiversity in North-east India.