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I. Course Title
: Climate Change and Forestry
II. Course Code
: FRM 603
III. Credit Hours
: 1+1
IV. Aim of the course
To develop an understanding among the students on the recent aspects of climate

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Forestry–Forest Resource Management
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change, mitigation and adaptation options and the current national and international
initiatives to tackle climate change.
V. Theory
Unit I
History of climate change, Institutional developments towards climate change.
Recent developments in global climate changes: Changes in source and sinks of
carbon in the last few decades. Global warming potentials of major GHG’s.
Unit II
Effect of climate change on: Ocean, Soil, Forest, Biodiversity, Agriculture and
Livelihood and relevant mitigation measures to address these issues. Climate
change, Economic development and energy conservation dilemma. Role of alternate
energy sources and its current status towards offsetting fossil fuel use. Carbon
Footprint: concepts, methods of assessment, applications and its uses in different
fields with special reference to Agriculture. Role of agroforestry strategies to increase
terrestrial carbon sinks. Global dimming; role of aerosols in global dimming and
implications to solar energy constant.
Unit III
Policy issues: Kyoto protocol, carbon trading mechanisms, Montreal agreement,
Marrakesh Accord, REDD, REDD+ and other recent international agreements and
negotiations to address the climate change issues. Other Climatic aberrations and
its relationship to climate change: Ozone depletion, ENSO, etc. India’s stand on
climate change: Recent developments in the strategies; Green India Mission,
CAMPA, Millennium goal and other policy initiatives to mitigate climate change.
VI. Practical
• Atmospheric CO
2
measurement methods;
• Soil Carbon assessment, Soil carbon dynamics;
• Atmospheric CO
2
flux measurements. Exposing plants to elevated CO
2
concentration.
FACE and FATE experiments, Open top chambers and its importance in
understanding the effect of increased CO
2 
concentration and plant growth;
• Differential responses of species to elevated CO
2 
concentrations. Diurnal plant
response t light, temperature and CO
2 
concentration.