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Land degradation, extending over 96 million hectares is a primary ecological issue for India that has resulted in catastrophic biodiversity loss and exacerbated extreme weather occurrences. One of the major sources of land degradation is large-scale coal mining to realize country's expanding energy demands. By 2050 climate change and land...

Planning for a sustainable future involves understanding the past and present problems associated with urban centers. Rapid urbanization has caused significant adverse impacts on the environment and natural resources. In cities, one such impact is the unsettling urban growth, resulting in the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which causes...

適応に関する世界全体の目標（Global Goal on Adaptation: GGA）とは、2015年に採択されたパリ協定において定められた気候変動適応に関するグローバルな目標であり、温暖化を２度未満に抑えるという目標（緩和目標）に並ぶ、パリ協定の支柱の一つである。2021年の国連気候変動枠組条約第26回締約国会議(COP26)において併催されたパリ協定締約国会合（CMA3）では、GGAに関するさらなる協議のため、「GGAに関するグラスゴー・シャルムエルシェイク作業プログラム」（通称 GlaSS）の設置が合意された。GlaSSはその名の通り、英国・グラスゴーで開催されたCOP26とエジプト・シャルムエルシェイクで開催されるCOP27を繋ぐ２か年の作業プログラムであり、年に4回...

Regional droughts are increasing in frequency and climate change projections indicate an exacerbation in the occurrence of regional droughts in the future. Droughts are complex hydrometeorological events, and the complexity of cause-and-effect relationships across administrative and political borders can make drought management a challenge. While...

Over the years, climate change adaptation has evolved to cover a range of issues providing long-term solutions to even the chronic developmental issues that couldn't be addressed with traditional solutions. The discourse on climate change adaptation has broadened the understanding of risk and risk management among stakeholders that contributed to...

Accurate urban morphology provided by Local Climate Zones (LCZ), a universal surface classification scheme, offers opportunities for studies of urban heat risk, urban ventilation, and transport planning. In recent years, researchers have attempted to generate LCZ maps worldwide with the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT). However...

This presentation systematically describes various steps to be followed for developing a community-based adaptation plan to address the climate change vulnerabilities identified by the project team.

Forest ecosystems play an indispensable role in addressing various pressing sustainability and social-ecological challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem services deterioration, hence the monitoring of the world's forests is crucial. As part of the global forest assessment workflow, a forest is generally classified and...

Highland agriculture is fraught with several challenges that are related to tough agroclimatic conditions, poor agricultural institutions and socio-economic conditions. Overlaid with these challenges is the rapid climate change that is projected in the highlands as the world highlands will experience more rapid warming than the rest of the world...

River meandering and anabranching have become major problems in many large rivers that carry significant amounts of sediment worldwide. The morphodynamics of these rivers are complex due to the temporal variation of flows. However, the availability of remote sensing data and geographic information systems (GISs) provides the opportunity to analyze...