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National Conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’ 12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow into the construction industry (all scales and types) that it is impossible to visualize a structure (however small or even temporary) without the use of cement. The tendency then is twofold; one both regresses in time and researches the use of traditional building techniques and materials largely phased out (like mud and straw), or one looks to modern research and technology to provide an alternative (cement). Both approaches have their place in the ongoing search for green practices in architecture. It is also true that neither have as yet produced viable alternatives that have large scale acceptance. One hopes that this research will bear fruit and open up exciting avenues in building design and construction. However, the need for green buildings is much more pressing does not allow a waiting for solutions. What one needs to do now is to explore a middle path; one which is most easily comprehended and therefore most likely to be executed by the majority of society in developing countries. The case example deals with a design competition entry of a Sustainable Building Technology Center proposed at Kasarwadi near Pune in India. The SBTC aims at propagating energy-efficient building practices amongst those directly and indirectly related to the building industry and otherwise as a vehicle for increasing awareness in this respect. It goes without saying that a center of this nature had to be an “energy and resource efficient” building/campus in the truest sense. Therefore, the kind of technologies adopted and propagated by the Center addressed the issue of mass scale acceptance calling for careful and place-sensitive selection of sustainable building practices. The emphasis was on the use of solutions that were most easily understood and implemented. The proposal based itself on two broad aspects – Environmental/Energy and Architecture; both inherently interlinked and reflections of each other. One maintains that such design interventions, applied over a large number of building projects, will definitely have a profound effect on our energy consumptions. This paper sets out to illustrate, through a case example, a viable list of “things to do” while academia comes up with a solution to our present state of crisis. And indeed, there is much that can be done. 100
National Conference on Science of Climate Change and Earth’s Sustainability: Issues and Challenges ‘A Scientist-People Partnership’ 12-14 September, 2011, Lucknow CLIMATE CHANGE, ITS IMPACT AND MITIGATION -AN OVERVIEW Amit Mishra, Poonam Pandey and A.H. Khan Environment Monitoring Division, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Post Box No. 80 -226001 Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region (more relevantly to contemporary socio-political concerns, of the earth as a whole) over an appropriately significant period of time. Climate change reflects abnormal variations to the expected climate within the earth's atmosphere and subsequent effects on other parts of the earth, such as in the ice caps over durations ranging from decades to millions of years. The climate of the earth is always changing. In the past it has altered as a result of natural causes. There is no doubt anymore in the mainstream of scientific community that the earth is warming and increasing evidence shows that human activities are responsible and have a significant part in it (IPCC, 2007). Since the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s, the burning of fossil fuels, destruction of forests and other human activities have added a significant amount of GHG to the atmosphere. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, much like a greenhouse, and cause air and sea temperatures to increase. The changes over recent years and those which are predicted over the next 80 years are thought to be mainly as a result of human behaviour rather than due to natural changes in the atmosphere. Climate impacts are not only related to exposure, but also to adaptive capacity. Urban settlements with a long history of investment in housing, urban infrastructure and services (such as in many high-income countries), and public emergency response (such as in Cuba), as well as those with economic/financial losses much reduced by insurance, will be relatively more resilient to cope with the impacts of climate change. In the present paper an attempt has been made to discuss various important issues of climate change such as-its impact on environment and mitigation measures to meet the challenges through national and international coordination, cooperation and awareness. 101
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