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Vulnerability to Climate Change: Issues and Challenges towards Developing Vulnerability Indicator

Vulnerability to Climate Change: Issues and Challenges towards Developing Vulnerability Indicator

Sibananda Senapati, Vijaya Gupta
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781466688148|ISBN10: 1466688149|EISBN13: 9781466688155
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch005
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Senapati, Sibananda, and Vijaya Gupta. "Vulnerability to Climate Change: Issues and Challenges towards Developing Vulnerability Indicator." Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability, edited by Soumyananda Dinda, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 82-104. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch005

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Senapati, S. & Gupta, V. (2016). Vulnerability to Climate Change: Issues and Challenges towards Developing Vulnerability Indicator. In S. Dinda (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability (pp. 82-104). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch005

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Senapati, Sibananda, and Vijaya Gupta. "Vulnerability to Climate Change: Issues and Challenges towards Developing Vulnerability Indicator." In Handbook of Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental Sustainability, edited by Soumyananda Dinda, 82-104. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8814-8.ch005

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Abstract

This paper is based on a detail review of literature available in the area of climate change, vulnerability and impact assessment. Methodological issues pertaining to vulnerability like; development of vulnerability indicators, process of indicator selection etc are the main focus in this paper. As discussed indicators are more acceptable, easy to understand and help in comparing across regions. However, indicators also possess a number of limitations. There are issues in selecting indicators and how to aggregate their values. The current study tries to overcome those issues through a primary study. The study region is Mumbai, India and ‘Koli' fishing communities reside in the city. The socio-economic implications of climate change and vulnerability of communities depending on fishery are estimated by developing vulnerability indicators using Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA), and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Further experts opinions are considered while selecting indicators. Vulnerability indicators are derived from literature and validated through experts' opinion. Experts are chosen from higher learning institutes in the city. In the climate change literature vulnerability mainly divided into exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. The indicators of sensitivity and exposure under vulnerability are combined here and categorized into two: livelihood and perceived changes. Similarly the indicators of adaptive capacity are of five categories comprising human, physical, financial, social and government policy related indicators. Thus a total 30 indicators are selected. Among five fishing villages surveyed, fishermen from Madh and Worli are found more vulnerable because of their high sensitivity and low adaptive capacity. The derived vulnerability scores are further compared and analyzed against the scores derived from experts. The overall result shows the experts value of indicators are similar with the indicator score derived in the study using simple aggregate method. This study further provides policy implications for reducing vulnerability of fishing villages.

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