1st Edition

Climate Change Alleviation for Sustainable Progression Floristic Prospects and Arboreal Avenues as a Viable Sequestration Tool

Edited By Moonisa Aslam Dervash, Akhlaq Amin Wani Copyright 2023
382 Pages 9 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

382 Pages 9 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

382 Pages 9 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The change in climatic conditions has resulted in a series of events from the melting of polar ice to the rising of sea levels. This has affected low-lying coastal areas by endangering plants and animals, agriculture and livelihood patterns in general, not to mention causing the outbreak of diseases like dengue, malaria, etc. It is, thus, imperative that mitigation measures to stabilize or reduce... Read more

1. Physical Drivers of Earth’s Climate   

Abolfazl Jalali Shahrood and Abrar Yousuf 

2. Global Warming or Global Cooling: Challenges and Future Prospects 

Zagir Ataev 

3. Global Climate Change Impacts on Watershed Hydrology 

Vishnu Prasad, Abrar Yousuf and Parminder Singh Sandhu 

4. Climate Change vis-à-vis Insect Pest Population 

Malik Mukhtar, Asma Sherwani, Adhfur Sherwani, Khursheed Alam and Moonisa Aslam Dervash 

5. Impact of Climate Change on Economic and Sociopolitical Aspects 

Abolfazl Jalali Shahrood, Moonisa Aslam Dervash, Akhlaq Amin Wani and Mohammad Amin Bhat 

6. Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecology of Caspian Sea: An Overview 

Munir Ozturk, Volkan Altay and Liliya A. Dimeyeva 

7. From Climate Change to Migration: The Prospects in Iran 

Ali Bogheiry  

8. Mechanism behind Sources and Sinks of Major Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases 

Tariq Mehmood, Muhammad Azher Hassan, Xinghua Li, Anam Ashraf, Sadia Rehman, Muhammad Bilal, Raphael M Obodo, Beenish Mustafa, Mehak Shaz, Saira Bibi and Awais Shakoor 

9. Soil Quality vis-à-vis Climatic Upheaval 

Mohammad Amin Bhat, Abrar Yousuf and Parminder Singh Sandhu  

10. Climate Risk Management vis-à-vis Crop Productivity under Climatic Variability 

Sukhjeet Kaur, Navneet Kaur, Abrar Yousuf, Jagdish Singh and Parminder Singh Sandhu 

11. Organic Amendments for Sustainable Crop Production, Soil Carbon Sequestration and Climate Smart Agriculture 

Maryam Adil, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Saleem Arif, Tahira Yasmeen, Farah Riaz, Komel Jehangir, Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Sajid Ali, Rashid Mahmood, Qaiser Hussain, Sher Muhammad Shehzad, Afia Zia, Muhammad Arif  

12. Forests and Tree-based\Land Use Systems: Mitigation and Adaptation Option to Combat Climate Change   

Kamini Gautam, Sapna Thakur, Vipasha and Sheeraz Salim Bhat 

13. Climate Change and Plant Phenological Variability 

Sweta Nisha Phukon, Manoj Kumar, Hukum Singh, Subrata Nandy 

14. Climate change and the need for REDD+

Mohammad Nayeem Shah, Gowhar Meraj, Majid Farooq and Ishfaq Gujree 

15. Clean Development Mechanism: Achievements, Challenges and Moving Beyond 2020 

Hemen Mark Butu, Magnus C. Abraham-Dukuma, Tiwalade Adeyemi Adeniyi, Kaze Tindo Narcisse Saturnin, Benyoh Emmanuel Kigha Nsafon, Michael O. Dioha and Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi 

16. Green Business through Carbon Credits 

Charles C. Anukwonke and Chinedu I. Abazu 

17. Avenue Plantation as a Viable Carbon Confiscation Tool: A Blueprint for Eco-smart Cities 

Amit Kumar, Rima Kumari and Purabi Saikia 

18. Potential Role of Turfgrasses and Understorey Vegetation for Mitigating the Changing Climate 

Tabinda Athar, Hina Fatima, Mohd. Kamran Khan, Anamika Pandey, Shumila Shahid, Mehmet Hamurcu and Sait Gezgin   

Biography

Moonisa Aslam Dervash, Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, is an Assistant Professor in Sri Pratap College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. She has authored more than 30 research articles and book chapters and has published 6 books with reputable publishers. Her specialization is climatology & carbon sequestration, soil biology, medicinal plants, environmental biotechnology, sustainable agriculture and environmental education.

Akhlaq Amin Wani, Ph.D. Forestry, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry, SKUAST Kashmir India. He has 14 years of experience in forestry and is specialized in forest management involving remote sensing and GIS applications. He has published 80 research papers in reputed peer reviewed journals. He is on the review panel of reputed journals and organizations. He has executed several research projects and was recently awarded with European Commission Erasmus+ project partnership with University of Bremen Germany.