Climate Change and Uttarakhand: An Analytical Perspective

Abstract

Climate change is now transformed as a significant concern which needs urgent action. The fear from global climate change is still growing and its disastrous impact is becoming evident, with a rise within the frequency and scope of natural disasters. The character of the matter is exclusive, the impact is all encompassing, and therefore the risks to both infrastructure and human life are high. Global climate change impacts are manifesting themselves within the sort of unpredictable monsoon; shifting and erratic rainfall patterns; simultaneous presence of drought-like conditions in some areas and excessive rainfall in others; hailstorms causing severe crop damage; and other extreme weather events like cloudbursts resulting in heavy precipitation during a smaller number of rainy days thereby affecting the groundwater recharge patterns. The functioning of fragile mountain system is threatened today by heating accelerated alarmingly by various anthropogenic and technogenic activities. It’s not a simple task to define the impact of global climate change on different resource sectors without understanding anthropogenic and technogenic impacts in several systems. It’s a challenging task for the scientists and Uttarakhand is a superb state to assess the varied impacts of global climate change because it's still some virgin or anthropogenically least affected alpine and snow cover area in its high altitudinal zone, and features a good amount of anthropogenically least affected forest area. In region just like the Uttarakhand, for instance, mass wasting (i.e., landslides, rock fall, slumping and creeping) is predicted to feature to irreparable settlement damage. With growing urbanization and development of recent industries, air quality and hazard has become more salient issues in urban areas. Global climate change has the potential to affect every link in supply chain, including the efficiency of the distribution network, the health and luxury of the workforce and pattern of consumption.

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Kavita Tariyal. (2022). Climate Change and Uttarakhand: An Analytical Perspective. Research and Reviews: Journal of Environmental Sciences, 4(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6413851