A Review of Climate Change and Vulnerability Indices of Indian States

The world has achieved massive economic progress in the past few decades, along with population explosion and rapid urbanization/ industrialization, the effects of which are being realized across the world in the form of global climate change with huge environmental impact. Though climate change is...

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Published in:Productivity (New Delhi) 2024-03, Vol.64 (4), p.345-354
Main Author: Nandy, S. N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agriculture
Carbon
Climate change
Drought
Emissions
Energy efficiency
Energy industry
Environmental impact
GDP
Global warming
Greenhouse gases
Gross Domestic Product
Per capita
Population
Precipitation
Rain
Urbanization
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Summary:The world has achieved massive economic progress in the past few decades, along with population explosion and rapid urbanization/ industrialization, the effects of which are being realized across the world in the form of global climate change with huge environmental impact. Though climate change is a natural phenomenon, the release of several greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere through human activities has made a greater contribution to global warming. The present paper is a review of Indian climate features/ trends and their consequences across the country. Recent countrywide trends in some selected climatic parameters like rainfall and temperature have been depicted. India is an agrarian country and is exposed to various hydro-ecological vulnerabilities, particularly successively occurring, extreme, climatic hazards like drought, flood and cyclone. Based on some indices, possible vulnerable areas due to the effect of climate change have also been depicted. Although the analyses are based on national level secondary data on selected parameters, some region-specific micro-level studies may better reveal the significance of these vulnerabilities. The present paper an attempt to map the climate variability across the nation.
ISSN:0032-9924
0976-3902
DOI:10.32381/PROD.2024.64.04.1