Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: Approaches to Sustainable Management of Aquatic Resources - Chapter 2 - Challenge of climate change

An overview of the concept of climate change along with an attempt to define the concept of climate change along with the distinction between weather and climate change and a brief description of climate system and its components—atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere comprise the prime constituents of this chapter. It also focuses on abrupt climate change, along with taking into consideration global warming, major drivers of climate change, extreme weather events and its related processes as well as impacts of climate change.