Abstract: Today’s global climate change and its adverse impact is the great event of emitting a huge volume of greenhouse gases and CO2 by developed countries. But unfortunately poor countries are bearing its disgrace value. Like other... more
Abstract: Today’s global climate change and its adverse impact is the great event of emitting a huge volume of greenhouse gases and CO2 by developed countries. But unfortunately poor countries are bearing its disgrace value. Like other developing countries, for Bangladesh the impacts of global climate change are most critical and vulnerable to a range of natural hazards. Already, the human suffering and cost to development is massive to this country and its people who are victims of human induced global warming. So the Government of Bangladesh should consider climate change as a priority concern and has to commit for taking urgent and long term actions to reduce the vulnerability. On this ground this paper has recommended some potential ways of forwarding from adverse impact of climate change on the basis of secondary sources which will assist the Government body for determine strategies for building climate resilient country perfectly.
The Indian Himalayan region represents various land uses based on people's needs and site-specific characteristics developed over the years. These land use changes (LUC) have attractive, wide and promising potential to store... more
The Indian Himalayan region represents various land uses based on people's needs and site-specific characteristics developed over the years. These land use changes (LUC) have attractive, wide and promising potential to store carbon and remove atmospheric carbon dioxide through enhanced growth of trees. The present investigation was carried out at Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand which a part of Lower-Himalaya, India. In this study to assess above ground biomass trees for height and diameter at breast height measured and followed the equation biomass × 0.50 to assess the carbon stock in different land uses. In Chirpine Forest (CF), significantly highest vegetation biomass carbon (~106 Mg ha-1) was recorded followed by mango orchard (~72 Mg ha-1), peach orchard (~49 Mg ha-1) and agrihorticulture (~38 Mg ha-1). It was reported in this order agri-silviculture (35 Mg ha-1) >agri-silvi-horticulture (~21 Mg ha-1) > lemon-pomegranate orchard (~14 Mg ha-1) > apple orchard (13.5 Mg ha-1) > guava orchard (~10 Mg ha-1). Thus, these land uses are not only remunerative to the farmers but also contributing towards tapping of atmospheric CO 2 vis-à-vis mitigation of greenhouse gases. These results suggest restoration of degraded land to forest land and decrease in intensity of land use could increase carbon storage in the study area as well as other similar mountainous regions of Indian Lower-Himalayas.
