Volume 4, Issue 16, October - December, 2018

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Pakistan is extremely vulnerable to climate induced hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, heat waves and extreme weather events. Flooding is the most devastating natural hazard of Pakistan. Since the inception, the country has faced with multiple flood events costing thousands of lives and billions of losses in infrastructure. The situation has gotten worse since the past decades as the events of floods have increased in the country particularly the enormous floods of 2010 which shook the economy and till now we have not been recovered yet. This paper utilizes primary and secondary sources in gathering the data regarding damages of floods incurred by the inhabitants of district Swat. A total of 86 respondents were interviewed using semi structured household questionnaire. The survey results showed that flooding is the main perceived climate change vulnerability in the area. Damages include human, livelihood and household losses. Most of the respondents believe the incidents of floods have increased since the past two decades. The study area is most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Climate variability and increasing extreme weathers events are resulting in livelihood insecurities among the local communities. Poor households with low resource base and adaptation capabilities are most vulnerable to the natural disasters.

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Climate Change & Disaster

Flooding as precursor of climate variability: causes and damages of 2010 flood event in District Swat, Pakistan

Muhammad Suleman Bacha, Mohammad Nafees, Muhammad

Pakistan is extremely vulnerable to climate induced hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, heat waves and extreme weather events. Flooding is the most devastating natural hazard of Pakistan. Since the inception, the country has faced with multiple flood events costing thousands of lives and billions of losses in infrastructure.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 642-652

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Climate Change & Sustainability

Crop residues management in agro-environmental sustainability

Jay Shankar Singh

The advance tools and technologies in agriculture sector of have played a significant role in enhancement of crop yields and food security to most of the countries. However, long term sustainability of current agricultural system is at risk because of soil health deterioration, over use of natural resources and erratic climate patterns due to global warming.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 653-660

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Climate Change & Food Security

Measuring the productivity of food-grain crops in different climate change scenarios in India: An evidence from time series investigation

Ajay Kumar Singh, Pritee Sharma

This study assess the impact of climate change on productivity of food-grain crops in India. It used Cobb-Douglas production function model to investigate the climate change impact on food-grain productivity in India using time series, 1980-2010. In this study, food-grain production/hectare land is used as a dependent variable that is regressed with different socio-economic and climatic variables.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 661-673

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Climate Change & Policy/Law

COP21 policies and abrupt climate change: Political Economy of Hawking’s Irreversibility

Jan-Erik Lane

Climate and earth scientists have convinced a large majority of people that climate change occurs today. And the new theory of abrupt climate change entails that huge feedback lopes will change the Earth already within the next one or two decades.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 674-683

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Climate Change & Ecosystem

A one hundred-year study of the upper limit of tree growth (Terminus aboreus) in the Swedish Scandes illustrated and updated change in an historical perspective

Leif Kullman, Lisa Oberg

Positional treeline change since the early 20th century and up to 2017 was assessed along three elevational transects on Mt. Getryggen in the southern Swedish Scandes. Baseline data, representing the year 1915, were compared with later intermittent records up to 2017.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 684-714

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Climate Change & Pollution

The status of air pollution attributable to automobile emissions in Mysuru: Implications for urban transport planning

Venkataramana GV, Azis Kemal Fauzie, Naveen S

This paper explains the interlinking impacts of population growth, urban land use, automobile transportation, and atmospheric air pollution in Mysuru, a fast growing city in south India.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 715-722

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Climate Change & Policy/Law

Brexit as critical juncture: factors for UK’s environmental policy amendment?

Cletus Famous Nwankwo

The United Kingdom (UK)’s political divorce of the European Union (EU),or ‘Brexit’ will have some implications for many policy areas because of the complex institutional web of the EU not least the fact that the EU’s environmental policy is integrated into the UK’s policy.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 723-727

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Climate Change & Atmospheric Science

Temporal analysis of drought in Mwingi sub-county of Kitui County in Kenya using the standardized precipitation index (SPI)

Cassim JZ, Juma GS

This study attempts to temporally characterize drought using Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) over Mwingi Sub-County of Kenya. Rainfall data spanning 1961-2011 over the area of study was used to determine SPI values using quantitative techniques in R programming.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 728-733

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Climate Change & Society

Determinants of Access and Utilization of Climate Services among Vulnerable Communities: A Case Study of Isoko Communities in Delta State, Nigeria

Onwuemele Andrew

Changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems. These impacts affect poor people’s lives through impacts on livelihoods and destruction of homes. In Delta State, the impacts of climate change are real. Adaptation has been identified as the key to reducing the impacts of climate change.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 734-742

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Climate Change & Atmospheric Science

Assessment of intensity and distribution of aridity over Bangladesh using different climate indices with GIS

Md. Ashraful Islam Chowdhury

Aridity is slowly lethal natural calamity for an agricultural county like Bangladesh. Due to aridity and scarcity of irrigational water the agricultural system of Bangladesh is being interrupted.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 743-749

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Climate Change & Engineering

Best practice - introduction to energy efficiency in greenhouses

Abdeen Mustafa Omer

The move towards a de-carbonised world, driven partly by climate science and partly by the business opportunities it offers, will need the promotion of environmentally friendly alternatives, if an acceptable stabilisation level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is to be achieved.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 750-780

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Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas

Prediction of methane (CH4) emission based on paddy harvest area in Lampung Province, Indonesia

Tumiar K Manik, Onny Chrisna P Pradana, Warsono

Major ccontribution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture sector comes from paddy cultivation system; flooded paddy field is the source of methane emissions.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 781-788

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Climate Change & Society

The influence of climate change on migration drivers: a qualitative analysis

Magreth S Bushesha

This paper takes forward the knowledge frontiers regarding the influence of climate change on migration by answering the question why people do out-migrate in the semi arid areas of Tanzania.

Climate Change, 2018, 4(16), 789-803

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