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Research Approach to Analyze Climate Change Impacts in Rural Regions of India and to Explore Potential Adaptation Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood Development

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This article contains the methodological and theoretical approaches related to assessing the impacts of various driving forces including climate on the diverse socio-ecological systems. The detailed description is given to formulate the appropriate approach in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research for producing successful outcome that can be implemented for resource management in various regions having contrast setup in the ecology, climate, and socio-economy. The scientific framework and integrated interdisciplinary approaches described at this juncture are toward working for complex problems in real world. As a result, realistic outcomes can be obtained for proposing the solutions so that the goals of sustainable social and ecological development under changing environment can be achieved.

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  1. Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Road, Nagarabhavi, Bangalore, 560 072, India

    Sunil Nautiyal

  2. Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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  3. ICRISAT, Int. Crops Res. Inst. for Semi-Arid Trop, Patancheru, India

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  4. Institute of Socio-Economics, ZALF e.V., Muencheberg, Germany

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  5. School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  6. Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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Nautiyal, S., Schaldach, R. (2016). Research Approach to Analyze Climate Change Impacts in Rural Regions of India and to Explore Potential Adaptation Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood Development. In: Nautiyal, S., Schaldach, R., Raju, K., Kaechele, H., Pritchard, B., Rao, K. (eds) Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_34

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