Volume 1, Issue 2, April - June 2015

About the Cover

This study objectively investigates the potential of rainfall to trigger earthquakes. Earthquakes (ML >3.0) and rainfall from 1995 to 2012 were examined in Taiwan. The earthquakes have a significant positive relationship with rainfall after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake as demonstrated using the Chi-square test. The results reveal a significant difference between the correlations for daily accumulated rainfall values and earthquake frequency before and after the Chi-Chi earthquake. The significant difference is discussed in regards to changes of geological conditions after the Chi-Chi earthquake (Ref: Jyh-Woei, Lin. Earthquake triggering rainfall in Taiwan. Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 72-82); (Model Image: http://www.nature.com).

Table of contents

Previous | Next

Research

Evaluation of Soil Carbon Pool potential under different Land use system and Its Correlation with different Soil Properties in North Wales, UK

Kasahun Kitila Hunde

The study was conducted at Henfeas research center in the north Wales, UK where Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and Red alder (Alnus rubra) were planted in integration with the grasslands. It was aimed to determine the soil organic carbon pool under different land use system. The soil samples were collected to the depth of 30cm at different depth intervals (0-10, 10-20 and 20-30cm) having five treatments: under and outside the canopy of both Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and Red alder (Alnus rubra) and under the control grassland.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 54-61

Full Text | PDF

New approach: Exploitation of non-conventional water in irrigation

Boualla Nabila

Among the most common problems and currently rocking the world, quoting the reuse of raw wastewater, particularly in agriculture, which consumes more than 80% of water resources exploited. The reuse of untreated wastewater in irrigation for plants provides a source of nutrients that can reduce the purchase of fertilizers and organic materials. But it poses serious risks to health such as untreated sewage is a factor of transmitting pathogens and hazardous chemicals in the human body.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 62-67

Full Text | PDF

Understanding Cooperative Behavior against Climate Change through a Public - Goods Game

Medha Kumar, Varun Dutt

Atmospheric carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions are increasing at an alarming rate. If this increase remains unchecked, then it would lead to disastrous consequences like temperature change, sea-level rise, and diseases world over. Therefore, it is important to study how global cooperation emerges against climate rechange.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 68-71

Full Text | PDF

Earthquake triggering rainfall in Taiwan

Jyh-Woei, Lin

This study objectively investigates the potential of rainfall to trigger earthquakes. Earthquakes (ML >3.0) and rainfall from 1995 to 2012 were examined in Taiwan. The earthquakes have a significant positive relationship with rainfall after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake as demonstrated using the Chi-square test.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 72-82

Full Text | PDF

Weather Aberration and its Impact on Agriculture of Habra Block, North 24 Pgs, West Bengal

Biswas Roy M, Bose A, Roy PK, Mazumdar A

Like other parts of the country south west monsoon is the main feature in the climate of West Bengal as well as North 24 pgs. It is the principal denominator of the prosperity of the state and the agro economy. The objective of the present paper is to evaluate the withdrawal of monsoon is far more gradual process than its onset.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 83-97

Full Text | PDF

Adaptation to climate change among rubber farmers in delta state, Nigeria

Mesike CS, Ugwa IK, Esekhade TU

The study analyzed the adaptation to climate change among rubber farmers in Delta state, Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique was used to select 50 rubber farmers. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that 40% of the respondents were 56 years of age and above.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 98-104

Full Text | PDF

Reviews

Climate Change and Food Security: Nepal Perspective

Pabitra Aryal

Global warming induced heat waves, drought, and flooding constitute a global food security emergency for us all today. Negative impacts of climate change on crop and terrestrial food production have been more common than positive impacts. Climate change is posing a threat on present and future food security in low income countries. But, the actual effect of the climate change on food security is not known.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 105-109

Full Text | PDF

Effects of climate change on food security and food safety

Harshal Tukaram Pandve

Global climate change is having its adverse effects on everything around us. Food security as food safety component is one which will be affected extensively over period of time due to climate change. This article reviews various effects as well as the pathways through with climate change will affect food security and food safety.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 110-111

Full Text | PDF

Climate Justice

Analysis of Seasonality Variations and Copping Strategies among Cocoa Growers: A Case of Kyela and Rungwe Districts

Magreth Bushesha

The study investigated how cocoa farmers cope with seasonality variations in Kyela and Rungwe districts in Mbeya Region Tanzania. The study had two specific objectives; to identify main buffer sources of income at times when cocoa produce go down; and to identify challenges that face cocoa growers in the study area. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Simple random sampling was used to select 224 sample population.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 112-121

Full Text | PDF

Strengthening Climate Justice Initiatives: Livelihood Challenges at the Local Level with a Focus on Farmers

Kirit N Shelat, Gopichandran, Nisha Shah

The objective of the present note is to strengthen the call to reduce “climate – burdens” faced by farmers. We emphasize the fact that all farmers face such burdens with equal intensity and the small farer however is exposed to greater spread and depth of risks due to inherent multiple vulnerabilities.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 122-128

Full Text | PDF

Climate Resilient Rainfed Systems

Ch. Srinivasarao

Knowledge of potential impacts of climate change on agriculture is recently important aspects in scientific community. Many studies showed that climate change lead to agricultural vulnerability, which increases the problems of future food security. Rainfed agriculture covers 58% of net sown area in the country.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 129

Full Text | PDF

The need for Gender sensitive response to the effects of Climate Change: a step towards Climate Justice through Science and Technology

Kinkini Dasgupta Misra, Vigyan Prasar

Climate change and extreme weather affect men and women both, but its adverse effects are likely to be more acute for women, especially economically weak and marginalised rural women. Directly or indirectly village women are largely depends on agriculture and informal sectors for their sovereignty, which are vulnerable to extreme weather.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 130-131

Full Text | PDF

Critique of Environment Public Hearing process in India with Special Reference to Rights of the Farmers

Madhuri Parikh

India has adopted the concept of sustainable development. Many new development projects are given permission in India after Environment Impact Assessment of the projects. But still due to the advent of the projects many people are displaced and rehabilitated. Many farmers lose their fertile land.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 132

Full Text | PDF

Global Climate Change and Biodiversity

Muthuchelian K

Climate is an integral part of ecosystems and organisms have adapted to their regional climate over time. Climate change is a factor that has the potential to alter ecosystems and the many resources and services they provide to each other and to society. Human societies depend on ecosystems for the natural, cultural, spiritual, recreational and aesthetic resources they provide.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 133-134

Full Text | PDF

Environmental Issues: Environment Protection Act, Challenges of Implementation and Livelihood Security

Dagar JC, Shakuntla Devi Dagar

The decline in environmental quality has been evidenced by increasing all kinds of pollution, loss of vegetation and biodiversity, excessive concentrations of harmful chemicals and green house gases in the ambient atmosphere causing climate change, growing risks of environmental accidents, and threat to food chain and life support systems.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 135

Full Text | PDF

Climate Justice though Regeneration of Common Property Resources (CPRs) for Income and Employment Generation for the: A Case Study

Maheshwari RC

An integrated approach has been made to develop a wasteland falling under classes IIIes and VIes of land capability classification in watershed management plan, for achieving fuel and fodder security in an adopted village Islamnagar under Operational Research Project on Integrated Energy and Nutrient supply System.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 136

Full Text | PDF

‘Bio – Rights’ As New Paradigm in Empowering Commons for Environmental Justice

Gopichandran R, Dipayan Dey

‘Bio-rights’ is based on the principle of Environmental justice that all people have a right to be protected from environmental pollution to live in and enjoy a clean and healthful environment. Bio-rights are financial mechanism to compensate opportunity costs of local stakeholders and assist commons of global south in reconciling poverty alleviation and sustainable use of natural resources.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 137-138

Full Text | PDF

Widening Participation for Social Justice: Poverty and Commons Access to Environment

Dipayan Dey

In this international Year of Sanitation, one in five of the world’s population, which includes two-thirds as women, live in abject poverty; on the margins of existence, without adequate clean water, sanitation or healthcare, without food and education. This enormous mass basically depends on the natural resources of the environment around them.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 139

Full Text | PDF

Justice Education as Sustainability Instrument for Reducing Interest Conflicts in Development in Global South

Amrita Chatterjee, Dipayan Dey

Justice Education happens to be the empowerment panacea for the commons in the global south. Right to participation and socio-economic justice is the only sustainability instrument for reducing interest conflicts in global south. In developing countries, social impact assessment studies continue to be applied as tools for impact minimization and mitigation.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 140-141

Full Text | PDF

Impact of Climate Change Technologies in India

Vidya Kumari T

New technologies are tools of progress and development. Innovations and technology transfers are the beacon lights that attract the developing countries to provide monopoly rights in exchange for useful products and processes that mitigate problems of public concern including climate change.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 142

Full Text | PDF

Institutional Innovation in Climate Smart Agriculture

Tushar Pandey, Parth Joshi, Srijita Dutta

Indian agriculture is highly dependent upon weather since more than 60% of the cropping area is rain-fed. A recent IFPRI-CCAFS study has forecasted that India could lose 10-40% of its current crop production by the end of century due to global warming. The report estimated that 10% drought will increase the prices of rice by 23%.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 143

Full Text | PDF

Climate Justice: Agriculture Perspectives

Arunachalam A

Agriculture appears in the global climate change negotiations principally as a crosscutting issue – relevant to almost all of the main negotiating topics, yet for the most part appearing only incidentally. However, when it comes to ground zero, the cultural practices and traditional knowledge systems that help in adapting the communities to climate change impacts are enormous and significant; these processes also indirectly help in the mitigation processes.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 144

Full Text | PDF

Climate smart Agriculture: Overview of Presentation

Robert Jordan

Farming in India is a highly complex socio-economic phenomenon. Climate justice is therefore part of a much broader issue of justice for farmers, the rural poor and indigenous peoples in India. This presentation is intended to provide insights into emerging international policies and their implications for farmers in India.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 145

Full Text | PDF

Is this justice to the saviours of the Climate?

Shalin Shah

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) more popularly known as “Carbon credits” is no longer a new terminology. It has been introduced since beginning and well accepted in various industrial sectors to gain credits against their future emission reduction potentials.It is mainly done for offsetting the emissions of developed countries by the activities of developing countries.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 146

Full Text | PDF

Helping farmers cope with climate variability and change in the regions of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

Anthony Whitbread

The International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is has been in existence since 1972 with its headquarters in Hyderabad and research stations and offices in several sub-Saharan countries giving it a global outreach. Coping with climate, both variability and change, is often the No.1 challenge to farming in the semi-arid tropics.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 147-148

Full Text | PDF

Speech to be delivered by Shri O.P Kohli, Hon’ble Governor of Gujarat at the International Conference on “Strengthening Climate Justice Initiative: livelihood Challenges at local level with a focus on farmers”

Shri OP Kohli

Distinguished participants form the country and aboard research’s, academicians, ladies and gentlemen. It is a privilege for ma to address of legal luminaries opinion leaders, researchers, academicians, practitioners of law and enablers of justice. The deliberation proposed here is of paramount importance because their subjects pertain to the climate change and related justice.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 149-150

Full Text | PDF

Inaugural address of his Lordship Honorable V.M Sahai the Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Gujarat, Ahmadabad on the occasion of inaugural session of Conference on “Strengthen Climate Justice initiative; Livelihood Challenges at local Level with a focus on farmers”

Honorable VM Sahai

I am enthralled and elated in the inaugural session of the Conference on “Strengthen climate Justice Initiatives; Livelihood challenges at local level with a focus on Farmers” The reason for my elatedness is not far to seek, but lies in the fact that this conference would go in to scientific data in respect of climate change, its impact on environment in general and livelihood challenges to farmers in particular.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 151-153

Full Text | PDF

Speech to be delivered by Hon'ble Chief Justice of India at the International Conference on ‘Strengthening Climate Justice Initiatives at the Local Level for Sustainable Livelihood with a Focus on Farmers’

Hon'ble Chief Justice of India

We are gathered here today to reflect and discuss issues that will fundamentally shape India in the 21st century. In some senses, it is a confluence of where we come from as a nation and the direction in which we are headed. Agriculture is an integral part of who we are as a society and a nation.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), 154-157

Full Text | PDF

Book

Climate smart agriculture, the way forward: The Indian perspective (Book)

Kirit N Shelat

Sustainable Development is a pattern of use of natural resource that aim to meet human need while protecting the environment and simultaneously it ensure the need for resources can be met not only in the present, but also in the indefinite future. The word “Sustainable Development” has well-known implications.

Climate Change, 2015, 1(2), cc1-cc184

Full Text | PDF