Consequences of Climate Change in India & Disaster management laws

The solution to the global problem of climate change has been dominated by the concept of mitigation: reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming till recent times. The present debate in the global community now centers on how much change and when will this change occur. The focus on prevention in both academic research and practical application of climate change policy has resulted in the neglect of an alternative conception, that of adaptation. The issue of climate change raises difficult issues of science economics and justice. Climate change threatens food security, public health, property and the livelihoods and lives of members of effected communities. This article attempt to discuss why adaptation has traditionally been neglected in the international discourse on climate change, and also why it has come to have greater prominence in more recent studies and policy initiatives and further analyses and breaks down the concept of adaptation into ‗impacts-driven‘ and ‗vulnerability-based‘ methods, to argue that only the latter truly takes account of the socio-economic determinants of climate vulnerability, and thus offers effective adaptive solutions to the challenges posed by climate change. An attempt is made to put forth the situation in India with regard to climate change in India. It is concluded that the adaptation approach needs to be mainstreamed into general socio-economic policies, in order to ensure that vulnerable populations are able to face up to the challenges of man-made climate change and everyday climatic hazards.