Climate change adaptation in the western-Himalayas: Household level perspectives on impacts and barriers

Pandey, Rajiv; Kumar, Praveen; Archie, Kelli M.; Gupta, Ajay Kumar; Joshi, P. K.; Valente, Donatella; Petrosillo, Irene

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.08.021

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“…Impact of climate change is wide spread, and it has negative impacts in various aspects of rural livelihood [19]. Those impacts can be observed through increased and uncertain impacts on hydrological functioning, depletion of water sources, decrease in soil productivity, ecological degradation, increased disaster risk, resulting in reduction of land productivity and economic performances [20][21][22][23].…”

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Revisiting Agroforestry for Building Climate Resilient Communities: A Case of Package-Based Integrated Agroforestry Practices in Nepal

2019

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Agriculture based livelihoods in the developing countries are bearing significant negative impacts due to climate change. In this scenario, agroforestry is one of the best alternatives to cope with climate change and disaster risks. However, the agroforestry approaches adopted in the past were sectoral and partial, and were insufficient to contribute to socio-economic wellbeing and resilient communities. Nepal has been implementing package-based integrated agroforestry since 2016. It is a project approach to advance agroforestry practices by including disaster mitigation, land and water management, and community development activities. This paper reflects on the process and outcomes of the agroforestry practices, implemented by the government in seven super zones of Nepal. The programs have shown fairly satisfactory output in building adaptive capacity to climate change, awareness and active participation in agroforestry development activities. This paper reveals that the agroforestry alone cannot be sustained, and hence, it has to be integrated with land productivity enhancement, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, and livelihood support in addition to tree plantation in agricultural lands. This paper is crucial in understanding the scope of package-based integrated agroforestry approach to build climate resilient communities.

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Revisiting Agroforestry for Building Climate Resilient Communities: A Case of Package-Based Integrated Agroforestry Practices in Nepal

2019

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“…First, cultivation of a larger number of species and farm diversification; second, introduction of, or increased cultivation of, better-adapted crops and varieties of livestock animals and breeds; and third, integration of trees and shrubs into production systems. Various studies have found the limited practice of adaptation options by smallholder farmers due to a limited capacity to implement them [4,52,84]. Some identified constraints include lack of money, lack of access to adequate information, inadequate technical knowledge and awareness, and unclear property rights to promote household-level adaptation practices [4,52,84].…”

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“…Rural people, especially in developing parts of the world, are more vulnerable to risks posed by ongoing environmental challenges, including climate change [1][2][3][4]. The vulnerability of rural areas within South Asian countries is generally considered through the loss of crops, shelter, community infrastructure, and socio-economic activities [5,6].…”

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“…A knowledge gap also exists in the potential of locally available EGS to support climate adaptation initiatives from households through to communities and across landscapes. Adaptation initiatives by individual households reflects household-level adaptation [4], whereas community-level adaptation refers to a community-led process and practices designed to empower people to plan and cope with the impacts of climate change [55]. Landscape-level adaptation aims at a broader landscape comprising a mosaic of agricultural land and other natural habitat [56].…”

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Panchase Mountain Ecological Regions of Nepal

2018

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Rural mountain communities in developing countries are considered particularly vulnerable to environmental change, including climate change. Forests and agriculture provide numerous ecosystem goods and services (EGS) to local communities and can help people adapt to the impacts of climate change. There is however poor documentation on the role of EGS in people's livelihood and adaptation practices. This study in the rural Panchase Mountain Ecological Region of Nepal identifies practices being used to adapt to a changing environment through key informant interviews and focus group discussions. At the household level, livelihood diversification, changes in cropping patterns and farming practices, use of multipurpose plant species and income-generation activities were identified as adaptation strategies. Among major strategies at the community level were community forestry-based climate adaptation plans of action for forest and water resource management. Landscape-level adaptation strategies were large-scale collaborative projects and programs, such as Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Chitwan Annapurna Landscape conservation; which had implications at both the local and landscape-level. A proper blending and integration of adaptation strategies from individual households through to the community and to the landscape level is needed for implementing effective adaptation in the region.

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“…One of the results on this study also showed that the frequencies of major climate change risk indicators for each of the six regions are different. Therefore, as proposed in previous studies [6,66,67,70], differentiating adaptation policies and urban planning according to their climate change risk results can effectively reduce climate change risk and minimize the budget for climate change adaptation policy as well.…”

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang

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2018

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Abstract:The risks caused by climate change are worsening worldwide, and it is recognized that national and regional responses to climate change are essential. This study therefore explores climate change risks that have been recognized as fatal to people and the environment by analyzing multi-influence factors that appear in multiple risk indicators. The climate change risks in this study are based on 73 existing risk indicators; the frame data for multi-influence risk factors are based on 3098 newspaper articles published over 24 years on the impact of climate change in South Korea. The main outcomes for this study were finding climate change risk trend from newspaper articles regarding climate change impacts through text-mining, and figuring out the multi-risk indicators that are likely to occur at the same time with other risk indicators using network analysis. From the network analysis, we found that the major risk indicators have a high degree of interrelationship among risk indicators, including "increase in mortality rate from disaster", "increase in flood areas due to coastal flooding", and "destruction of repair facilities due to flooding (river bank, etc.)". The main risk indicators derived from this study can therefore be used as a reasonable standard when identifying the main risks posed by climate change and defining future adaptation planning priorities.

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Climate change adaptation in the western-Himalayas: Household level perspectives on impacts and barriers

Cited by 129 publications

References 42 publications

Revisiting Agroforestry for Building Climate Resilient Communities: A Case of Package-Based Integrated Agroforestry Practices in Nepal

Revisiting Agroforestry for Building Climate Resilient Communities: A Case of Package-Based Integrated Agroforestry Practices in Nepal

Adaptation to Climate Change in Panchase Mountain Ecological Regions of Nepal

A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

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