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- Title
From climate change impacts to adaptation: A development perspective for India.
- Authors
Garg, Amit; Shukla, P. R.; Kapshe, Manmohan
- Abstract
India has good reasons to be concerned about climate change as it could adversely affect the achievement of vital national development goals related to socio-economic development, human welfare, health, energy availability and use, and infrastructure. The paper attempts to develop a framework for integrated impact assessment and adaptation responses, using a recently built railroad coastal infrastructure asset in India as an example. The framework links climate change variables — temperature, rainfall, sea level rise, extreme events, and other secondary variables — and sustainable development variables — technology, institutions, economic, and other policies. The study indicates that sustainable development variables generally reduce the adverse impacts on the system due to climate change alone, except when they are inadequately applied. The paper concludes that development is a vital variable for integrated impact assessment. Well crafted developmental policies could result in a less-GHG intensive future, enhanced adaptive capacities of communities and systems, and lower impacts due to climate change.
- Subjects
INDIA; CLIMATE change; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL temperature changes; RAINFALL anomalies; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering; ABSOLUTE sea level change; WATER levels; GLOBAL warming
- Publication
Natural Resources Forum, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 2, p132
- ISSN
0165-0203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-8947.2007.00142.x