Palgrave Handbook of Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Face of Climate Change: Contexts from a Developing Country

This book shares experiences and knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation, risk reduction strategies, communities’ responses, and best practices from different landscapes of India. It provides insights into climate change risk reduction in trans-disciplinary frameworks. The findings and discussions put forward in the chapters, largely based on micro-level case studies, provide an in-depth understanding of interactions among ecology, society, and economy under different conditions of changing climate. It contains critical discussion on both existing and required actions as adjustments to climate change impacts by different actors at diverse scales and contexts. The recommendations will be beneficial in climate change adaptation planning for India and other developing countries, where a large portion of the population directly depends on climate-sensitive sectors. The content of the book is interdisciplinary and it will be beneficial for scholars and practitioners from natural science, social science, policy, and governance across the continents.

Sunil Nautiyal, Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Nagarabhavi, India
Anil Kumar Gupta, Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience, National Institute of Disaster Management, Delhi, India

Mrinalini Goswami, Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Nagarabhavi, India

Y D Imran Khan, Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources, Institute for Social and Economic Change, India