Transitioning to a low-carbon economy presents several challenges for India. Here are some key challenges identified: Administrative and Socio-economic Heterogeneities: India's diverse administrative and socio-economic landscape poses challenges in implementing uniform climate and energy policies acRead more
Transitioning to a low-carbon economy presents several challenges for India. Here are some key challenges identified:
- Administrative and Socio-economic Heterogeneities: India’s diverse administrative and socio-economic landscape poses challenges in implementing uniform climate and energy policies across states and regions. The geographical distribution of costs and benefits of these policies needs to be carefully understood to ensure equitable outcomes and avoid political resistance .
- Political Economy Constraints: Devising politically feasible policies for the transition to a low-carbon economy requires a deep understanding of how these policies would impact different stakeholders. Concerns over disproportionate impacts on poor households, rising inequality, and concentrated costs on specific groups can undermine public support for climate policies .
- Technological and Infrastructural Challenges: Transitioning to clean energy technologies requires significant investments in renewable energy infrastructure, grid integration, and energy storage. Scaling up emerging technologies such as hydrogen, battery storage, and low-carbon alternatives in sectors like steel, cement, and fertilizers also poses technological and infrastructural challenges.
- Economic Implications: The shift to a low-carbon economy may have economic implications, particularly for sectors heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Balancing the need for economic growth and job creation with the imperative of reducing carbon emissions requires careful planning and policy interventions .
- Limited Evidence and Vulnerabilities: Limited evidence on the needs of those affected by the transition and existing social and economic vulnerabilities can hinder India’s ability to achieve a just and equitable low-carbon development pathway. It is crucial to identify potential transitional challenges across income groups, genders, sectors, regions, and communities to ensure an inclusive and fair transition
Causes of Landslides Natural Causes: Heavy Rainfall and Flooding: That is by soaking the soil and weakening it to the extent that the ground becomes unstable in nature. Earthquakes and Seismic Activity: Moves and shakes and removes the rocks and the soil. Volcanic Eruptions: It forms loose volcanicRead more
Causes of Landslides
Heavy Rainfall and Flooding: That is by soaking the soil and weakening it to the extent that the ground becomes unstable in nature.
Earthquakes and Seismic Activity: Moves and shakes and removes the rocks and the soil.
Volcanic Eruptions: It forms loose volcanic ash that tends to lead to occurrences of landslides.
Snowmelt: Due to the fast rate of melting, the water contributes to the soil and reduces it strength.
– Weathering and Erosion: Slow denudation or wearing away of the slopes by constant processes of weathering and corrosion.
– Slope Topography and Vegetation Loss: Skymer further classified fascism into six levels where steep slopes and regions with low vegetation cover are most affected.
– Deforestation: That means once the trees are removed, the roots will not be anchored to the soils making the slopes insecure.
– Construction Activities: Road constructions, constructions of buildings, and construction of dams upset the state of balance of the slopes and thus become instable.
– Mining and Quarrying: Blasting and excavation have detrimental effects on support systems on slopes.
– Bad Agricultural Practices: If not checked or controlled Shifting cultivation or terracing will lead to weakness to slopes
– Climate Change: Brings the likelihood of the intensity of the rainfall which could trigger landslides to happen more frequent.
Effects of Landslides
Economic Loss: Waste property and roads, infrastructures agricultural lands & forests let unfathomable financial damage.
Environmental Impact: The landslide results in such consequences as disturbance of the existing ecosystem, loss of homes as well as may result in furthering soil erosion and thus river sedimentation which might culminate in quality water issues.
Infrastructure Damage: It is very likely that the formation of land slide will damage the roads, bridges and constructions needed for transport and communication.
Displacement of Communities: Landslide requires people to be shuffled, resulting to a disruption of their income source and psychosocial disruption.
The above elements makes up the compact that is the National Risk Management Strategy.
The National Risk Management Strategy creates capacity and anticipates how to manage natural disasters. Major elements would include;
This strategy will try to make efforts in reestablishment of balance between readiness and recovery as will strive to mitigate effects of landslides for a quick and efficient bounce back.
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