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147999
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Climate change discourse entails a very complex set of factors, policies, negotiations and diplomacy, at the same time it exemplifies a very peculiar practice of science as well. Multiple voices which are quite commonly known as the climate change negotiations have turned it into a very critical debate. The discourse is critical not because there is climate change, which after all is an eternal phenomenon responsible right from Jurassic upheavals to the pre-Holocene glaciations. It is because, this time around, there is clear cut and quite visible anthropogenic contribution to acceleration of adverse effects of climate change resulting in the warming of the earth having far reaching consequences.
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148015
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Climate change impact on ecosystems brings along changes in genetic, species, and ecosystem biodiversity The effect of climate change on water resources is particularly manifest in Central Asia. In this region, water resources are crucial for a wide range of issues related to national and regional security. Providentially Climate change could magnify the risk of floods, mudflows and landslides in the mountains, including glacier-related hazards. The Central Asian countries are still failing to develop and implement strategies on how to deal with climate change, which could have very serious consequences for the region. Finding the balance between energy generation, such as large-scale hydropower, and water provision for large-scale agriculture is difficult and politically sensitive.
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148001
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Development has been synonymous with industrialization based on fossil fuel technology as defined, started in West in sixteenth century and sprawled and encompassed the entire world. As a part of development, modernization meant application of science and technology to the resources of the earth wantonly and to all the aspects of life in a mechanical way without thinking the disastrous effects of it. In other words, this process of western defined development meant the colonization of the nature. After post second world period this concept of development was adopted by all the non-western countries as a part of westernization and modernization.
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148002
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The issue of climate change has become a universal phenomenon. From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. (Parenti, 2011). The fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. (Gore, 2006). We should take into account the fact that dwindling resources, massive population shifts. natural disasters. spreading epidemics, drought, rising sea levels, plummeting agricultural yields, crashing economies and political extremism.
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148013
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Climate change is the most crucial challenge to realizing the goals of sustainable development. Out of the many dimensions of climate change, the contemporary culture of consumption is very significant. Unless we examine the drivers of this culture, sustainability will be a distant dream. If we see the global consumption pattern we find that the developed countries have the greatest share in consuming the world resources and energy. As a result the developed nations have taken the lead in accelerating the shift towards sustainable production and consumption. However the rest of the world needs to follow strict measures to discourage consumerism for global climate protection.
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148019
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The paper concerns to explore and analyse the close interrelationship between water and climate change, how water serves as a primary medium through which climate change influences the ecosystem of the Earth. Consequently, it affects livelihood and well-being of societies. Climate change is having potential to exacerbate a wide range of existing, interacting, non-climate threats to security as known as threat multiplier.
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148000
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It is high time to put our sincere efforts to implement a holistic program to develop new materials for cleaner energy for its cost effectiveness to make affordable to poor people in rural India. There is an immediate need to shift towards solar and wind energy options. As our country is known for agriculture, production of biomass and agricultural waste is unavoidable for which biorefinery is the need of the hour. These options of energy not only help developing rural India but will give rise to healthier and happier lives in the villages which will further help in increased GDP of the country.
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148004
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In fact climate change, energy security and sustainable development are the interrelated aspects of growth and development process of the entire human endeavour, whose mutual interplay considerably affect the environment and ecological balance anywhere on the earth. Unfortunately, the South Asian region has severely been suffering from several chronic problems for the long past, thereby preventing wider participation of common people in the framing of government policies and decisions and hampering the process of sustainable development in the region.
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148006
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India has 22 nuclear power reactors operational and several new are coming up in the country. The issue of setting up and operating of new nuclear power and reprocessing plants stands intertwined between development, environmental/climate change concerns, and areas under mega projects being struck with natural calamities’ like floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, manmade accidents or breach of security, all leading to nuclear disaster. Dependence on nuclear power, storage and disposal of nuclear waste, areas surrounding reprocessing plants, transportations of nuclear warheads and their safety is a highly risky proposition in the country. Before, during, and after major nuclear disaster, a coordinated emergency response to restoration and mitigation of further complications in nuclear power sector is an enormous problem.
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148012
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The dominant discourse linking environment and development is that of ‘antagonism’. It is believed and established on the basis of evidences that environmental degradation is a result of un-limited developmental activities in the form of increased energy consumption. The model of economic development that is based upon the formal approach to economy is based on the premise that resources are limited and the needs of people should be met in such a way as to make sure the optimum utilization of resources. This model is also based upon profit maximization and the law of increasing return. It has been argued that such a model is an anti-thesis to the idea of sustainable development.
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148018
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Sustainable development concept represents a shift- a paradigm shift- to bring social and structural-economic transformation or concept of development which optimizes the social and other benefits without jeopardizing likely potential for similar benefits in/for the future generations to come. According to Gandhian philosophy problem of environmental degradation is in the mind of individual. He should change himself from inside out for which individual must be spiritual and religious.
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148017
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Disaster management agencies in India and in several other developing economies have not acknowledged the inbuilt factors of social vulnerability. There is a growing concurrence among researchers that detailed in-depth studies are required to assess social vulnerability.
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148010
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The aim of this article is to underscore the global climate change impact and the beginning of anthropocene by looking at the human – environment relationship through the anthropological perspective. By using a cultural approach to the study of human–nature relationship, the aim is not only to understand the circumstances leading to anthropocene but also to touch upon the nuances of environmentalism and sustainable development debate in contemporary times.
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148014
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The National Disaster Management Authority of India, set up under National Disaster Management Act 2005, has developed disaster preparedness and emergency protocols. It would be imperative for the civil administration at the state and district levels in India to develop their disaster management plans using these protocols and guidelines. Thus, after 2010 flash food, the district level disaster preparedness and emergency protocols have been initiated and implemented.
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148008
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On the eve of the World War First, Winston Churchill made a historic decision to shift the power source of the British navy’s ships from coal to oil. He intended to make the fleet faster than its German counterpart. But the switch also meant that the Royal Navy would rely not on coal from Wales but on insecure oil supplies from what was then Persia. Energy security thus became a question of national strategy. He said, “Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety and variety alone and the key to energy security has been diversification.” Since Churchill’s decision, energy security has repeatedly emerged as an issue of great importance and it is so once again today.
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148005
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Climate change has been described as the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. World population is being projected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050, with most of this growth in developing countries. Developed and developing world are busy in passing the buck of responsibility for protection of environment which is an irresponsible behaviour on the parts of governments across both the world. While the principal cause of climate change is high level of consumption in the developed countries, its impact will be greatest on people in the developing world, which most scientific research and organizations are forecasting.
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148016
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While future climate change situations and nearby effects stay dubious, Protected Areas will without a doubt be influenced. Nonetheless, they can likewise have a critical influence on adjustment to climate change. Enhancing atmosphere strength and adjustment will require changes in the way to deal with Protected Areas’ planning, foundation and administration. Besides, it is basic to lessen worldwide greenhouse gas outflows and to keep the temperature rise within a 2ºC limit and if these things are not accomplished, adaptation will never be adequate.
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148011
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Coal is India’s most abundant indigenous energy resource, supplying over half of India’s total energy demand. India imports coal to meet only 20 per cent of its total energy demand, but it must import approximately 60 per cent of its oil. With the increase in South Asian region’s dependence on imports of petroleum products, pressure will further increase on their foreign exchange reserve.
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ID:
148009
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This paper is a humble attempt to critically examine the strategic issues involved in the domain of sustainable development, as far as the whole world is concerned and the role of India in that context. As a matter of fact, the models of development followed across the globe give importance to economy at the cost of ecology and the unmindful utilization of natural resources, i.e. forest, river, water, soil, clean air, which is massive loss to human civilization, particularly its future generation. This is not only a problem for the western developed countries but also the developing countries are going to be equally affected by this process. As a result of which, the impact of climate change is clearly visible on this earth.
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ID:
148003
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Energy security means that we ensure that there is enough energy left for us to harness for the survival of our species into the future. There are debates about the limits of human technological possibilities. There are people who are prone to arguing that humans do have the technological possibilities to counter the effects of climate change and environmental degradation; yet the spate of environmental disasters the world has been facing in the present does not provide such as assurance.
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