PANAJI
Forest Survey of India (FSI) has recently published a report titled: ‘Mapping Climate Change Hotspots in Indian Forests based on observed Climate Change and High Resolution Climate Model Projections’. Dr Rajiv K Chaturvedi, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus has contributed to this prestigious report.
Based on observed historical climate data and by using future climate change projections in the 21st century this report mapped climate change hotspots in Indian forests at a very high spatial resolution. The study concludes that forested grids in the Himalayan region and from the north-eastern states consistently appear as climate change hotspots across climate change scenarios and time-horizons.
