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Impacts of Climate Change on Mumbai City Assignment

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Impacts of Climate Change on Mumbai City Assignment

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1Impacts of Climate Change on Mumbai City, India.by Course: Tutor: University:Department: 18th September 2017
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2Executive summaryUrban areas are the first leading producers of greenhouse gas emissions with current 70percent users of global energy. The rising sea levels, floods (inland), rise in heat levels andthe potential increased in disease incidences, droughts, reduced water supply and air pollutionare expected to affect the health, properties, and livelihood of the people of Mumbai. Suchimpacts are further expected to worsen with the increasing level of urbanization. Thegeographical location of Mumbai city pre-disposes it to the bad impacts of climate change.The climate change impacts the city of Mumbai negatively in various ways; it affects itsprecipitation, sea level, humidity, wind, and temperature. These impacts have negative andpositive effects on the general livelihood of the city residents. However, the adverse sideeffects are more pronounced and thus affect the social, economic status of the people. As ameans of mitigating such impacts, the government and other goodwill stakeholders have triedto implement strategies whose effects have not been felt or seen by many.
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3Table of ContentsExecutive summary....................................................................................................................2Introduction................................................................................................................................5Impacts of Climatic Changes on precipitation...........................................................................6Impacts of Climatic Changes in Sea level..................................................................................7Impacts of Climate Changes in Humidity..................................................................................8Impacts of Climate Changes on wind........................................................................................9Impacts of Climate Changes on temperature.............................................................................9Social impacts..........................................................................................................................10References................................................................................................................................14
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4Figure 1 :(Lau Waliser and Goswami, 2012). Dark line shows 10-yearmoving average..........7Figure 2 :Isostatic and Eustatic Changes...................................................................................8Figure 3 :Observed and projected Rainfall against population from 1951 to 2050................12
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