This contributed volume is focused on  SDG 3, 6, 7 ,9, 11, 15, and it covers extensive knowledge on damage and loss contexts of climate change in a developing country.  India's vast landscape with its diversity of eco-geo-physiography, socio-cultural, and developmental settings, coupled with climate change and anthropogenic factors, makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries of the world and, thus, representing almost all the disasters and extreme events associated with climate change, variability, and weather phenomenon.Besides common hazards,such as heavy rainfall, floods, drought, cyclone and heat wave, secondary and composite disasters like forest fires and disease epidemics are also covered with case studies and examples. Cross-cutting aspects like infrastructure resilience, gender and social equity concerns, legal and assessment tools, and futuristic vision have been covered well in the book. Disaster risk reduction, preparedness, and resilience as central themes of adaptation to climate change are presented through policy discussions, tools, and strategic analysis of past and recent lessons.This book is of common interest to a wider range of readers across policyplanning, academia, research, and professional practitioners having interest in adaptation, resilience building and sustainability in developing countries of the world. Though it is primarily a reference book, it can also serve as a textbook for university courses and professional trainings in climate change adaptation, disaster management, sustainability and strategic management studies.           

Part 1: Overview and Major Climatic Disasters Chapter 1_ Climate Change- Extremes, Disasters and Call for Resilient Development.- Chapter 2_Evolution of Disaster Risk Reduction Systems in India.- Chapter 3_ Climate and Weather Forewarning Systems for Disaster Preparedness and Response.- Chapter 4_Community Based Issues and Opportunities in Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction.- Chapter 5_Flood Management: Present Practices and Future Revisions Under Climate Change .- Chapter 6_Drought Disaster: Issues, Challenges and Risk Mitigation Strategies.- Chapter 7_Cyclone Disaster Mitigation and Management in India: An Overview.- Chapter 8_Heat Wave Disaster Risk Management Action Planning: Experience and Lessons.- Chapter 9_Impact of Climate Change on Forest Fire in India and Climate Adaptive Management Strategies.- Part 2: Thematic and Cross-cutting Issues Chapter 10_Climate Resilient Infrastructure in Developing Countries.- Chapter 11_Climate Change Adaptation in Industrial Areas for Disaster Resilience.- Chapter 12_Managing Disaster Waste in the Aftermath of Emergencies: Addressing Future Climate Risk-Integrating Adaptation.- Chapter 13_Climate Resilient Healthcare System in India.- Chapter 14_WATSAN and Public Health in Hydro-Climatic Disasters.- Chapter 15_Understanding Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Urban Ecosystem for Resilience to Climate Risks.- Chapter 16 Water Governance Transition Pathways: Adaptive Water Governance.- Chapter 17 NbS interventions as tool for urban climate resilience: A case study of peri-urban ecosystem in Noida.- Chapter 18 Equity and Fairness in Community Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.- Chapter 19 Gender and Climate Sensitive Disaster Risk Management.- Chapter 20 Climate Change Impact on Landuse and Livelihood in Sundarbans, A Case Study of Sagar Island.- Part 3: Tools and Strategies Chapter 21 Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in EIA/SEA for Climate and Disaster Resilient Development.- Chapter 22 Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration through Environmental Legislations in India.- Chapter 23 Pathways for Integrating Climate- Disaster Resilience into Planning: Scaling Sub-national Studies to National Policy Paradigms.- Chapter 24 Insight for Climate Resilience and District Level Developmental Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction in Himalayas: A Case of Uttarakhand.- Chapter 25 Risk Management for Averting, Addressing and Minimizing Climate related Loss and Damages.- Chapter 26 Integrating Climatic DRR and CCA into Project Management Cycle.- Chapter 27 Nature Based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction- Concepts And Lessons.- Chapter 28 Multi-Hazard Risk and Integrated Approach to Resilience.- Chpater 29 Anticipatory Adaptation Planning: An Inherent Vulnerability Approach to Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.- Chapter 30 Adaptive Planning for Resilience and Sustainability - Lessons from India:  Project CAP-RES and Network.- Chapter 31 Disaster Risk Reduction throughClimate Adaptive Development: Strategies and Road Ahead.