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The course initiates a study of climate change impact, adaption and
mitigation strategies in the framework of sustainable development.
- Introduction to climate and climate change. Natural and anthropogenic climate change.
- Learning from the past: Climate Change in Deep Time: Snowball Earth, Icehouses and
Greenhouses
- Assessment of future climate change impacts on freshwater resources and their
management practises, agriculture, food security, forests and fibre products, coastal
systems and low lying areas, mountainous areas and fragile ecosystems, industries,
settlements and society, human health.
- Implication of future climate change for rural and urban societies.
- Learning from the past: The loss of the “Saraswati” river and its impact on the urban
phase of the Indus Valley civilisation.
- Case studies on present day climate change, perception of climate change and adaption
to changing cropping patterns and water availability among rural communities in the
Himalaya mountains. The effect of climate change on vulnerable communities.
- Climate change and gender.
- Assessment of future impacts and adaption strategies for the Indian subcontinent.
Strategies of coping with inaccurate predictions. Assessing current gaps in the scientific
understanding of local climate change and its effect on Monsoon rainfall and agricultural
output.
- Inter-relationships between climate change adaptation and mitigation. Perspectives on
climate change and sustainability and the link between sustainable development and
climate change mitigation.
- Economic growth beyond “peak oil”. Perspectives on the role of active climate change
mitigation in the energy and transport sector in accomplishing sustainable and inclusive
growth and its importance for national security and political independence throughout
the 21st century. Perspectives on the the link between sustainable growth in agriculture,
food security and National Security. Waste management and human health. Mitigation
from a cross sectoral perspective.
- Andrew Dessler, Introduction to Modern Climate Change, CUP, 2012
- W. F. Rudimann, Earth's Climate-Past and Future, W. H. Freeman & co., 2001
- Climate Change 2007 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Contribution of Working
Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
- Climate Change 2007 - Mitigation of Climate Change Contribution of Working Group
III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
- Pragya D. Varma (Ed), Reflections of Climate Change Leaders from the Himalayas,
Report Case Studies Detailed. Thematic Group: Livelihoods and
People's Perceptions,
LEAD India, 2010
- Nellemann, C., Verma, R., and Hislop, L. (eds). Women at the frontline of climate
change: Gender risks and hopes A Rapid Response Assessment, 2011. United Nations
Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal.
- Bates, B. C., Z. W. Kundzewicz, S. Wu and J. P. Palutikof, (eds), IPCC Technical Paper
VI - June 2008 - Climate change and water
- O. Edenhofer, R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, K. Seyboth, P. Matschoss, S. Kadner, T.
Zwickel, P. Eickemeier, G. Hansen, S. Schlmer, C. von Stechow (eds), IPCC, 2011:
IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.
Prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change,
Cambridge University Press.
- IPCC, 2011: Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to
Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX), Prepared by Working Group II of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
