Vulnerability of Himalayan transhumant communities to climate change

Aryal, Suman; Cockfield, Geoff; Maraseni, Tek

doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1157-5

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“…These frameworks have been considered in numerous quantitative vulnerability assessments produced for diverse systems, such as the generation of the vulnerability indexes (i.e. : Adger, 2006;Füssel & Klein, 2006;Hahn et al, 2009;Sullivan, 2011;Aryal et al, 2014). Quantitative approaches have been the most common as they enable an easier interpretation and provide clarification regarding the contribution of socioeconomic and biophysical factors.…”

Section: Vulnerability Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

External Drivers and Internal Control Factors that Determine the Vulnerability and Response Capacity to Drought of Cattle Producers in the Sierras Del Este Region of Uruguay

Díaz¹,

Achkar²,

Mazzeo³

2017

JAS

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Increased response and adaptation capacity are key elements for coping with climate threats. Cattle producers in the Sierras del Este region are one of several groups that are the most vulnerable to climate variability in Uruguay. Despite this commonality, it is a heterogeneous system, which suggests that strategies to respond to these events are divergent. The objective of this work is to identify and evaluate the vulnerability of cattle producers to drought and determine drought response strategies. A new approach is proposed and focuses on the identification of differential capacities to address the vulnerabilities. In addition, this approach seeks to define groups of similar producers of vulnerability since the design of public policies cannot be developed in isolation. For evaluation, we provided consultations with livestock producers and specialists from which we collected our data. Data was analysed using multivariate statistical analyses. Our results indicated that 69% of the system's vulnerability variance can be explained by 4 components: the capacity for cattle management, the socio-economic capacity to handle drought, the capacity to generate alternatives to cattle feeding, and the commercial and financial flexibility of the producers. These findings also yielded response groups that, in turn, identified 7 producer groups with significant differences in the available and necessary capacities to respond to drought. This methodological strategy allowed the operationalization of the vulnerability and responsiveness concepts, and the identification of strategies for these events. Additionally, this strategy creates an understanding of the complexity of the system and the variables that contribute to it.

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Section: Vulnerability Assessmentmentioning

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External Drivers and Internal Control Factors that Determine the Vulnerability and Response Capacity to Drought of Cattle Producers in the Sierras Del Este Region of Uruguay

Díaz¹,

Achkar²,

Mazzeo³

2017

JAS

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“…In Kalinchok, goats (Capra hircus) and cows/ oxen were dominant with other types being buffaloes (Bosbuballis) and charui/jockpyo. In Majhigaun, cows/oxen (B. taurus) was the dominant livestock and remaining were goats (C. hircus), buffaloes (B. Buballis) and horses (E. caballus) [18,19].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Transhumance is a form of pastoralism in which livestock are moved seasonally between fixed points to utilize the seasonal availability of grazing resources [15][16][17]. Transhumance is practiced by the inhabitants of settled communities to adjust varying environmental conditions combining [18][19][20]. The transhumance has a direct bearing with the timing of rainfall and grass production, cropping seasons, persistence or melting of snow in the rangelands, and availability of water in the grazing areas etc.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change and Indigenous People: Perceptions of Transhumant Herders and Implications to the Transhumance System in the Himalayas

Aryal¹,

Maraseni²,

Cockfield³

2014

J Geol Geosci

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“…As a growing body of scientific evidence shows (Ives, 2012;Pandey and Bardsley, 2015;Aryal et al, 2014;Guthman, 1991;Cho et al, 2016;IPCC, 2014), the Himalayan region is facing an increasing level of uncertainty due to growing variability in climate change, natural hazards and (socio-environmental) disasters. Despite over five decades of research and development efforts, institutions in the Himalayas are still grappling with understanding the socio-geo-environmental underpinnings of the Himalayan challenges (see, Singh and Thadani, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%