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Impact of Climate Change has become a harsh reality for India and the World. Climate change relat... more Impact of Climate Change has become a harsh reality for India and the World. Climate change related disasters have brought wide spread misery and huge economic losses to India adversely affecting human health, agriculture and food security, natural resources and energy security, and Biodiversity. Various national and international institutions like IPCC have shown a stark picture in Indian context. The scenario is anticipated to worsen as humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere without being aware of the contribution they are making for their own downfall. Over the past decades, climate change has become one of the most heavily researched subjects in science. However, in recent years the impact of climate change has become prominently visible with an erratic monsoon creating drought in some areas and extreme deluge in others like Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir. Annual mean temperature in India for the past 110 years shows an increasing trend. There is also a definite increase in the sea-level and sea surface temperature. Simply put, the values in India are comparable to global values and yet, public participation in addressing this issue is only minor. India and the World faces two challenges dealing with climate change, first to reduce Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission by moving to alternative technologies as early as possible and second to build community resilience to deal with recurring impact of Climate change which now have become inevitable.
Under above scenario Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi)
has organized a National Conference at Conference Centre, University of Delhi, on 02-03 March
2015 to provide a common platform for the students, academicians and scientific community
(scientists / researchers) from different disciplines to share their observations and experiences so as to generate sufficient interest for further research in the area of climate change and its adaptation and mitigation.

Papers by Sakshi Saini

International journal of research in social sciences, 2012

The process of slum demolition in order to marginalize the poor has resulted in the eviction of I... more The process of slum demolition in order to marginalize the poor has resulted in the eviction of India's largest urban population. Many poor families have been shipped out of the city's leading to increase in the hardships of urban poor. They face the brunt of lack of proper water and sanitation facilities. In urban areas people belonging to rich sections of the society can always access water and sanitation facilities, however it's the poor who are suffering due to the lack of these basic amenities. They spend quality time and a large portion of their monthly income in accessing them. The women are the main sufferers as their physical hardship, vulnerability to problems increases with the absence of water and sanitation. Although, various initiatives in the form of policies and programmes have been taken to provide these basic amenities, which however fail to achieve the desired goal. One of the reasons is the lack of community awareness and participation. The community ...

CCAFS aim to disseminate interim climate change, agriculture and food security research and pract... more CCAFS aim to disseminate interim climate change, agriculture and food security research and practices and stimulate feedback from the scientific community.

Introduction Delhi being a rapidly emerging world-class metropolis is one of the fastest growing ... more Introduction Delhi being a rapidly emerging world-class metropolis is one of the fastest growing economies in the country with a 15% average compounded growth rate, among cities with million plus population. As Delhi swells due to a large influx of migrants from smaller cities, towns and rural areas day by day, it is aggravated with unmatched deficient housing and basic amenities. As a result, such ‘informal settlements’ are increasing in numbers, sizes and densities year after year (Ali and Singh, 1998). Delhi was home to around 1.37 crore persons in 2001 of which almost one fifth lived in slums (Census of India, 2001). This number is estimated to reach 2.79 crores by 2026 further adding to the slum population (UNDP, 2007).

ANTYAJAA: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change, 2018

Various policies and programmes have been launched in India to enhance the adaptive capacities of... more Various policies and programmes have been launched in India to enhance the adaptive capacities of vulnerable groups to climate change. However, an assessment of the adaptive abilities of urban poor women living in the National Capital Region of Delhi, India, to climate change shows that marginalized groups have been excluded from access to required information. It recommends the urgent need to provide knowledge on how to adapt to the effects of climate change to the most vulnerable sections of society.

Policy Futures in Education, 2015

The Government of India made a series of policy changes regarding elementary school education in ... more The Government of India made a series of policy changes regarding elementary school education in the country in the period 2002–2012. In 2009 the Government made free (and compulsory) education a fundamental right of every child in India between the ages of six and fourteen. The Government also set out the infrastructure provisions that schools were mandated to implement. In doing so, it adopted a rights-based approach to elementary school education. This paper reports on a study of the effectiveness of this approach. It is argued that merely declaring a public service as a citizens’ right does not entail either optimal access or optimal implementation. Rather, the paper argues that claiming of rights and implementation requires an enabling environment and it is concluded that societal power bias and social accountability are important factors in creating such an environment. The examples of Kerala and Bihar, respectively the best and worst performing states in India with regard to ...

Climate Change Management, 2015