Features of Climatic Zones, Climate Change and Natural Hazards

Abstract

There remains a proportionate balance between constituents of an ecosystem and surrounding components of environment. Economic development is a dynamic process which may necessitate alteration in existing proportionate equilibrium and through transition may acquire characteristic of other climatic region over time. As an ecosystem passes through intermediate stage of change in constituents, sustainable economic development process requires the minimization of its unfavourable affects on immediate environment forming climate over long time horizon. From this perspective, this paper makes an effort to prepare a framework for analyzing regional characteristics of climatic zones in India, type of dependence on natural resources and impact of change in carbon-di-oxide (CO2) emission on associated natural hazards.