Climate Crisis, Social Responses and Sustainability

This proposed book aims to present an analysis of several crisis issues induced by global climate changes and implications at the micro-level, particularly from the perspective of ground-based study. Climate crisis leads to several socio-ecological issues which need to discuss with some empirical case studies from the contextual global evidences. Climatic crisis generates several social responses which are associated with mitigating issues in addition to sustainable development goals. Under these circumstances, several loopholes interlinked with climatic crisis need to expose in the present-day context. This book argues that it is important to understand the issues from multiple dimensions. It identifies some important dimensions to discuss in the process. Themes we purpose to cover are: several field-based studies are included for which micro-level field-based data would incorporate to understand current crisis induced by climate change, thus exposing the vulnerabilities of the communities which would be incorporated in different chapters with adequate representation of qualitative methods, modelling-based geospatial approach. Therefore, some secondary data-based studies have also been included to provide a broader picture.

Additionally, this book aims to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of the issues mainly from the lenses of Geography, Economics, and Sociology as well as Environmental Studies too. Given the focus of this study, it is believed that an approach that harmonizes the cognitive domain from different discipline is appropriated. A combination of chapters using qualitative as well as quantitative methods also made this book exclusive from others. We believe that this edited book surely contributes the knowledge domain with some relevant chapters' discussion in the contemporary time and leads to reduce the gap of knowledge.

Aims at the audience that is potentially very large in both academics and informed lay audience Covers climate change holistically, including global and regional scales, ecosystems, agriculture, and energy Addresses the variety of challenges associated with climate change

Auteur

Dr Uttam Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Geography (undergraduate and postgraduate) at Vidyasagar College, University of Calcutta. He is also Director of the Research Centre of Vidyasagar College, Kolkata. He is associated with college teaching for the last 37 years. He has taught at City College of Commerce, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, and Presidency College, and at present, he is teaching at Vidyasagar College where he has completed 26 successful years. Before venturing into college teaching, he initially started his career as Planner in the Planning Department of KMDA. Dr Mukhopadhyay has simultaneously contributed largely to the social field and is associated with a great deal of charity work. His writing and views as Social Expert on various aspects of life, society, and education are highly valued and published in different newspapers, leading TV channels, articles, and journals from time to time. He is also associated with a lot of research work where his research papers get accepted in various national and international journals. He has successfully completed several prestigious government-funded projects from various social and economic perspectives. The majority of his work involve tribal society, environment, urban planning, and resource potentiality. Apart from all this, he has authored numerous textbooks at the school and college levels.

Dr Subhasis Bhattacharya completed his master's in Economics from Calcutta University and doctoral degree from University of North Bengal. He has 23 years of academic experience comprises of teaching learning and research activities mainly in Cooch Behar College, University of Gour Banga, and presently in Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University. The research work of Dr Bhattacharya mainly deals with Health Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Resource Economics, and Financial Economics. Specially, multivariate analysis, multinomial distribution, data envelopment analysis, and stochastic frontier analysis are the preferred fields of econometrics of Dr Bhattacharya.

Dr Pradip Chouhan is Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India. Earlier he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His areas of research interest are fertility behaviour, public health, maternal health, and child health. Actively engaged in teaching and research in Population Geography for nearly two decades, Prof. Chouhan has published more than 65 research papers in Scopus and Web of Science-indexed journals, edited 3 books, and authored 1 book. He is Reviewer of Scopus and Web of Science-indexed journals. He has completed a major research project funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Ministry of Human Resource, Government of India. Dr Chouhan has also completed one minor research project funded by the University Grants Commission. He has successfully supervised 4 Ph.D. and 8 M.Phil. scholars.

Dr Suman Paul is Professor of Geography at Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from University of Calcutta, India, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He achieved National Scholarship and stood 1st position (1st Class FIRST) at undergraduate level in Calcutta University. His areas of specialization are urban geography, environmental hazards and disaster analysis, GIS, and remote sensing. He completed his Ph.D. in Urban Geography from the Department of Geography, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, entitled "Emerging Urban Centres - Status and Possibilities: A Case Study of the District of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal". He was associated as Assistant Professor at Post Graduate Department of Geography with more than 9 years of experience at Krishnagar Government College (Nadia, WB) and Acharya B. N. Seal Government College (Coo

Contenu

Section I: Introduction .- Chapter-I: Climate Crisis Impact on Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being.- Section II: Climate Crisis, Social responses and Sustainability on Ecological Perspective.- Chapter-II: Assessment of flood vulnerability of the people living in Tal and Diara geomorphic regions of Malda district, West Bengal.- Chapter-III: Assessing the rural livelihood vulnerability and risk to river flood in lower Gangetic West Bengal applying IPCC-AR5 methodology.- Chapter-IV: Impact of rapid Urbanization on Urban Microclimate dynamics: A case study on Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC), Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, India.- Chapter-V: Impact of Urbanization on Mirco-Climate and Environmental Quality in Barasat Municipality: A Geospatial Analysis.- Chapter-VI: Systematic review to address the effect of urban heat island and outdoor thermal condition on human comfort in small and medium cities of Global South.- Chapter-VII: Evaluating the Sensitivity of Saffron Yield to Climate Change in Western Himalaya, India. A study from Kashmir valley.- Chapter-VIII: Global Climate Change Crisis: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 in the Context of Solid Waste Management and Allied Sectors in India.- Section III: Climate Crisis, Social responses and Sustainability on Sociological Perspectives.- Chapter-IX: Harnessing the Power of Climate Activism: Insights from Psychological Perspectives on Climate Change Engagement - A Systematic Review.- Chapter-X: A Review on Traditional Knowledge: A Sustainable Solution for the Climate Crisis.- Chapter-XI: The Intersection of Climate Crisis and Disease Outbreaks: Cataclysmic Consequences.- Chapter-XII: Socio-Economic Challenges of Environmental Refugees: An Overview of Sagar Island of Sundarban, India.- Chapter-XIII: Socio-economic Dimensions of Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh: A Fo…