Impact of climate change on natural resource management

Contents Part I Impact of Climate Change: Seperating the Causes from the Effects 1 Estimation of Carbon Dioxide Emission Contributing GHG Level in Ambient Air of a Metro City: A Case Study for Kolkata.......................................................................... 3 Bipal K. Jana, Soumyajit Biswas, Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 2 Impact of Climate Change on the Availability of Virtual Water Estimated with the Help of Distributed Neurogenetic Models......................................................... 19 Mrinmoy Majumder, Sabyasachi Pramanik, Rabindra Nath Barman, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 3 Use of Forest Index or PLANOBAY in Estimation of Water Availability Due to Climate Change......................................... 45 Mrinmoy Majumder, Suchita Dutta, Rabindra Nath Barman, Bipal K. Jana, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 4 Application of Parity Classified Neurogenetic Models to Analyze the Impact of Climatic Uncertainty on Water Footprint.................................................................................... 71 Mrinmoy Majumder, Rabindra Nath Barman, Bipal K. Jana, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 5 Impact of Climatic Uncertainty on Water Sequestration of a Subtropical River Basin..................................................................... 93 Mrinmoy Majumder, Rabindra Nath Barman, Bipal K. Jana, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 6 Estimating Spatial Variation of River Discharge in Face of Desertification Induced Uncertainty.................................................... 111 Arnab Barua, Mrinmoy Majumder, and Rajib Das xii Contents 7 Determination of Urbanization Impact on Rain Water Quality with the Help of Water Quality Index and Urbanization Index........................................................................... 131 Sanjib Das, Mrinmoy Majumder, Debasri Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 8 Identification of Water-Stressed Regions of Two Tropical and Subtropical River Basins with the Help of Representative Elementary Area Concept and Neurogenetic Models........................................................................ 143 Debapriya Basu, Mrinmoy Majumder, and Debasri Roy 9 Estimation of the Spatial Variation of Stream Flow by Neural Models and Surface Algorithms........................................... 161 Mrinmoy Majumder, Suchita Dutta, Rabindra Nath Barman, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 10 Estimation of the Spatial Variation of Water Quality by Neural Models and Surface Algorithms........................................... 183 Mrinmoy Majumder, Suchita Dutta, Bipal K. Jana, Rabindra Nath Barman, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 11 Estimation of the Spatial Variation of Pollution Load by Neural Models and Surface Algorithms................................. 203 Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, Rabindra Nath Barman, and Asis Mazumdar 12 Impact of Stressed Climatic Condition on a Small Tropical Tributary................................................................................... 227 Rabindra Nath Barman, Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 13 Determination of Evapotranspiration from Stream Flow with the Help of Classified Neurogenetic Model.......................... 247 Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 14 Determination of Urban and Rural Monsoonal Evapotranspiration by Neurogenetic Models........................................ 267 Chinmoy Boral, Mrinmoy Majumder, and Debasri Roy Part II Natural Resource Management: Mitigating the Impact 15 Accumulation of Carbon Stock Through Plantation in Urban Area........................................................................................... 281 Bipal K. Jana, Soumyajit Biswas, Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar Contents xiii 16 Conservation of Natural Resource with the Application of Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Economy................................... 295 Bipal K. Jana, Soumyajit Biswas, Mrinmoy Majumder, Sashi Sonkar, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 17 Measurement of Diurnal Carbon Sequestration Rate and Aboveground Biomass Carbon Potential of Two Young Species and Soil Respiration in Two Natural Forests in India.............................................................. 309 Bipal K. Jana, Soumyajit Biswas, Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 18 Estimation of Soil Carbon Stock and Soil Respiration Rate of Recreational and Natural Forests in India............................... 329 Bipal K. Jana, Soumyajit Biswas, Sashi Sonkar, Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 19 Estimation of Reservoir Discharge with the Help of Clustered Neurogenetic Algorithm.................................................... 345 Mrinmoy Majumder, Rabindra Nath Barman, Pankaj Roy, Bipal K. Jana, and Asis Mazumdar 20 Water Availability Analysis and Estimation of Optimal Power Generation for a Fixed Head Multi-Reservoir Hydropower Plant....................................................... 359 Biswajit Majumder, Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar Part III General Overviews 21 An Overview of Hydrologic Modeling................................................... 375 Mrinmoy Majumder, Arnab Barua, and Bebapriya Basu 22 A Generalized Overview of Artificial Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm............................................................................ 393 Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar 23 Introduction to Climate Change and Climate Models......................... 417 Mrinmoy Majumder 24 A Brief Introduction to Remote Sensing and GIS................................ 441 Mrinmoy Majumder xiv Contents 25 An Introduction and Current Trends of Damodar and Rupnarayan River Network............................................................ 461 Mrinmoy Majumder, Pankaj Roy, and Asis Mazumdar Index.................................................................................................................. 481