Abstract
Viewing climate change merely as a change in temperature or humidity levels is a very narrow way of looking at the problem, which in essence has a much wider implication and ramification. Transmission and distribution of impacts under interactive and integrated influence of climate change and environmental pollution is an important area of research, which helps in quantifying human and ecosystem health risks. This also helps ultimately in converting them into the real economic terms - financial benefits accrued or costs incurred. Moreover, alterations and aberrations in temperature and humidity are very closely linked with significant perturbations in bio-geo-chemical cycles (BGCs). In essence, this means that climate change problem should ideally be viewed as a significant perturbation in BGCs. It is now gradually getting understood and established that alterations in land use and cover changes also affect (very significantly) the transmission and distribution dynamics of various diseases. The need of the hour, therefore, is to study the directions of these alterations and quantifications of their implications and impacts through ADAM (Accretion of Data and Modulation) and EVE (Environmentally Viable Engineering Estimates) Analysis. While discussing above-mentioned issues in the present paper, some case studies are also presented.
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The present article, inter alia, is a synthesis of earlier works done by the author. He is grateful to all those sources of information including discussions, discourses, workshops and conferences, which have helped in shaping this article by way of a systematic data analysis and appropriate synthesis and conversion of the information into useful models (ADAM and EVE approach). The views expressed in the article are mainly his and his Institution may or may not share the same views.
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Pandey, J.S. (2019). Looking at Climate Change and its Socio-Economic and Ecological Implications through BGC (Bio-Geo-Chemical Cycle)-Lens: An ADAM (Accretion of Data and Modulation) and EVE (Environmentally Viable Engineering Estimates) Analysis. In: Sheraz Mahdi, S. (eds) Climate Change and Agriculture in India: Impact and Adaptation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90086-5_9
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