Climate change and developing countries / edited by Banshaikupar Lyngdoh Mawlong.

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Introduction / Banshaikupar Lyngdoh Mawlong -- An eye of the storm perspective climate change / Leon Monroe Miller -- Climate refugees and institutional responses to their protection / Fazil Khan -- Climate change as a non-traditional security threat : reflections from Pakistan / Anjali Devi M. -- Security, risk and securitization of climate change / Norattam Gaan -- Climate change and its adverse consequences / Ravi P. Bhatia -- Climate change and security : debates, approaches and challenges / Saurabh Thakur -- Climate change and role of non-state actors : the case of the Indigenous people / Smriti Sabbarwal -- Climate change--a threat to the national security of India : understanding and identifying the key threats to Indian national security emanating from climate change -- Climate change impacts on African agriculture / Alemu Abota Adare -- Impact of climate variability on farming : what the farmers of Maghalaya perceive? / S.M. Feroze, Sao Evalwell Dkhar, Ram Singh, Pynbianglang Marboh, P.M.N. Rani and Koijam Johny Singh -- Climate change : impact on streamflow at Bhakra / Mohammed Sharif -- Impact of climate change on the rural livelihood in Meghalaya / Pynshongdor L. Nongbri -- Man and envrionment : the Khasi narrative / Charles Reuben Lyngdoh -- Ethical response to climate change with reference to the Khasis : then and now / Saphimosha W. Blah -- The contribution of Indigenous knowledge of the Khasis in ecosystem management / Jasmine T. Sawian, Larihun Jeengaph and Michelle Khongwir -- Bamboo ecosystem : an untapped carbon trading resource / David C. Vanlalfakawma, S.K. Tripathi and F. Lalnunmawia -- Can REDD+ and ecotourism coexist? Integrating REDD+ and ecotourism in Meghalaya : potential and implications / Bennathaniel H. Diengdoh, Lasara M. Lyngdoh and Tamanna Kala -- Climate change and government initiatives in India : the status of agricultural R & D investment / Dayohimi Rymbai, S.M. Feroze and Koijam Johny Singh -- Conceptualizing 'green cities' : making Indian cities environmentally sustainable / Oindrila Dattagupta -- A sustainable way to mitigate ozone pollution by reducing biogenic VOCs through landscape management programme / Pallavi Saxena -- Effects of fire and grazing interaction on carbon sequestration in the grassland ecosystem of Sohra (Cherrapunjeee), India / U. Shilla and B.K. Tiwari.

Climate change knows no boundaries and its cost must be borne by all earthlings. While the technologically advanced and developed countries are better prepared for responding to climate change, it is the developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts because they have fewer resources to adapt politically, socially, technologically and financially. Climate change is, thus, a matter of moral and cultural ethics. Climate change adaptation methods need to accommodate traditional environmental knowledge and practices of different indigenous cultures. This book explores.

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