Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

Climate change is broadly recognized as a key environmental issue affecting social and ecological systems worldwide. At the Cancun summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s 16th Conference, the parties jointly agreed that the v

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Sunil Nautiyal · K. S. Rao Harald Kaechele · K. V. Raju Ruediger Schaldach Editors

Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

Environmental Science and Engineering Environmental Science

Series Editors Rod Allan Ulrich Förstner Wim Salomons

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Sunil Nautiyal K. S. Rao Harald Kaechele K. V. Raju Ruediger Schaldach •



Editors

Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change

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Editors Sunil Nautiyal K. V. Raju Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources Institute for Social and Economic Change Bangalore India

Ruediger Schaldach Centre for Environmental System Research University of Kassel Kassel Germany

K. S. Rao Department of Botany University of Delhi Delhi India

ISSN 1431-6250 ISBN 978-3-642-36142-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2

Harald Kaechele Institute of Socioeconomics Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg Germany

ISBN 978-3-642-36143-2

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Foreword

Responding adequately to climate c