Coping with Climate Change Principles and Asian Context
The Environmental and climatic issues varies from continent to continent and is unique to Asia. Understanding the issues does need lot of research and study material which students may not be able to gather due to shortage of time and resources. Hence an
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Ramesha Chandrappa Sushil Gupta Umesh Chandra Kulshrestha l
Coping with Climate Change Principles and Asian Context
Ramesha Chandrappa Karnataka State Pollution Control Board Biomedical Waste Section Church Street 560001 Bangalore India [email protected]
Sushil Gupta Risk Management Solutions India A-7, RMSI, Sector 16 201301 Noida India [email protected]
Umesh Chandra Kulshrestha Jawaharlal Nehru University School of Environmental Sciences New Dehli 110067 India [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-19673-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19674-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19674-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931519 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: SPi Publisher Services Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
During the freedom struggle for India, Mahatma Gandhi was asked whether his country would achieve the standards of living as its colonial power after independence. “It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity,” was his reply. “How many planets will a country like India require?” After half a century, India and its neighbouring country China considered as world’s economic powers. Today, the global thinking is that both these countries will engulf the planet with their economic development. But the situation at present is that all the people in India and China are not holding silver spoons to transfer rice into mouth. In south Asia, the country like India which hosts several religions and which have taught non-violence to the world has the habit of spending towards defence out of reserve revenue collected as taxes from public. Positive aspect of such approach and investment is their possible utilization during war against climate change. Coping with climate change is a great challenge to all of us living on the planet earth. Climate change is the problem of the century. It has global appearance and effects. No single country alone can win the war against climate change. It needs constructive thinking and collective efforts. In this regard, developed countries have to take lead as they carr
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