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This book attempts to identify the adverse consequences of climate change (CC) on agriculture and food production. It
explores certain methods used to quantify river-basin-wide vulnerability to CC, and suggests adaptation mechanisms and their costs. These methodologies are relevant to all river basins, especially the Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery.
List of contents
List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Abbreviations. Foreword M. S. Swaminathan
. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Socio-economic Assessment of Climate Impacts in Agriculture
2. Methodologies for Quantifying Climate Change Impacts
3. Climate Change and Impacts: Godavari River Basin
4. Climate Change and Impacts: Krishna River Basin
5. Climate Change and Impacts: Cauvery River Basin
6. Technologies, Adaptation Costs and Cost of Uncertainty Associated with Climate Change
7. Climate Change and Socio-economic Impact Assessment: A Way Forward.
Notes.
Appendix.
Bibliography. About the Authors. Index
About the author
K. Palanisami is Principal Researcher and Director, IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hyderabad, India.
C. R. Ranganathan is Professor of Mathematics (retired), Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
Udaya Sekhar Nagothu is Professor, Development Studies, and Director (International Projects), Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (BIOFORSK), Aas, Norway.
Krishna Reddy Kakumanu is Special Project Scientist, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hyderabad, India.
Summary
This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods. It, first, makes a quantitative assessment of how climate change affects agricultural and food production systems; second, predicts how these systems may respond to climate change; and third, suggests adaptation measures and strategies to improve the income of farmers, increase production, save water and conserve environment.The work will be greatly useful to policy-makers, researchers and teachers of agricultural economics, environmental studies and economics and development studies as also to research organizations dealing with climate modelling and resource management.
