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VII. Suggested Reading
Houghton John
. 
2009
. Global Warming
(Fourth edition). Cambridge Press.
J Jager and HL Ferguson. 2007. IPCC Assessment Report. 
Climate Change Journal Climate
Change: Source, Impact and Policy
, Proceeding of 2nd World Climate Conference.
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Parry, Martin L, Canziani, Osvaldo F, Palutikof, Jean P, Van der Linden, Paul J and Hanson,
Clair E. 2007. IPCC. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Reddy KR and Hodges HF. 2000. 
Climate Change and Global Crop Productivity.
CABI
Publishing.
Robert M, Clausen and Henry L Gholz. 
Carbon and Forest Management
. School of Forest
Resources and Conservation. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

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Restructured and Revised Syllabi of Post-graduate Programmes
Vol. 1
696
Lecture Schedule
Sr. No.
Topic
No. of Lecture (s)
Theory
1.
History of climate change, Institutional developments towards
climate change
1
2.
Recent developments in global climate changes: Changes in source
and sinks of carbon in the last few decades
1
3.
Global warming potentials of major GHG’s
1
4.
Effect of climate change on: Ocean, Soil, Forest, Biodiversity,
Agriculture and Livelihood and relevant mitigation measures to
address these issues
2
5.
Climate change, Economic development and energy conservation
dilemma. Role of alternate energy sources and its current status
towards offsetting fossil fuel use
2
6.
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
2
7.
Global dimming: role of aerosols in global dimming and implications
to solar energy constant
2
8.
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
2
9.
Other Climatic aberrations and its relationship to climate change:
Ozone depletion, ENSO, etc.
2
10.
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
2
Total
16
Practical
1.
Atmospheric CO
2
measurement methods
2
2.
Soil Carbon assessment, Soil carbon dynamics
3
3.
Atmospheric CO
2
flux measurements. Exposing plants to elevated
CO
2 
concentration
3
4.
FACE and FATE experiments, Open top chambers and its importance
in understanding the effect of increased CO
2 
concentration and
plant growth
3
5.
Differential responses of species to elevated CO
2 
concentrations.
Diurnal plant response to light, temperature and CO
2 
concentration
4
Total
16