Name: Coping with Climate Change
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Author: Ramesha Chandrappa
ISBN: 9783642447457

Coping with Climate Change

Ramesha Chandrappa

Sushil Gupta

Umesh Chandra Kulshrestha

The Environmental and climatic issues varies from continent to continent and is unique to Asia. Understanding the issues does need lot of research and study material which students may not be able to gather due to shortage of time and resources. Hence an effort is made by authors gathering there experience and academic input from renowned universities of world. Climate change is real and coping with it is major concern in coming days. Most of the books written and sold in the past need updating and customizing. The general description of climate change and world will not help the professionals and students. It needs to seen area wise as a professional will work in specific geographic area. Hence an effort is made to collect data from Asia which host most populated countries along with ecological hot spots.

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The History of Climate Change.- Industrial Revolution, Climate Change and Asia.- Changing Environment - Where will this lead to?.- Greenhouse Gas Inventory.- Climate Change & Hydro-Meteorological Risks in Asia.- Asian Geological Settings its Effect on Climate Change and Disaster.- Climate and non Climatic Hazards.- Asian Context.- Predicting Disaster Asian Scenario.- Early Warning Systems and their Effectiveness in Asia.- Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Asia.- Prediction of regional climate change.- Capacity Assessment - is Asia ready to face Climate Change.- Hazard and Risk Assessment.- Preventing and Mitigation of Disasters.- Sea Level Change and Asia.- Impact of Biodiversity - Asian Scenario.- Changing Livelyhood due to Climate Change - Asian Perspective.- Accelerating Innovation and Decelerating Climate Change.-

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Ramesha Chandrappa is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and has done professional courses at The University of Manchester, Ecole Polytechnique Federation De Lausanne (EPFL), the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), UNESCO-IHE, and the United National Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). He has extensive experience collaborating with leading multinational and government organizations, and he is currently Project Development Officer and Director Research (In charge) for the Environmental Management Policy Research Institute in Bangalore. His research interests include climate change, solid waste management, water and sanitation, and environmental education. Dr Diganta Bhusan Das holds a personal title Reader in Porous Media in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He has the work experience at the University of Oxford (UK), Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), and many other places in Europe, USA and Asia. Dr Das is currently the Deputy Lead for the Research Challenge on Changing Environment and Infrastructure at Loughborough University and Deputy Director of Doctoral Research in the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University. He has taught a variety of courses relating to environmental pollution control, water engineering, fluid mechanics, reaction engineering, and mass transfer processes. Dr Das is a keen collaborator and team builder on a range of multidisciplinary porous medium topics such as (i) coupled free and porous flow (e.g., leakage in fluid distribution pipes, membrane separation), (ii) two-phase flow in porous media (iii) membrane water treatment (iv) chemical transport in porous tissues and tissue engineering bioreactors.