Socio-economic and Agricultural
Vulnerability Across Districts
of Karnataka
K.V. Raju, R.S. Deshpande and B. Satyasiba
Abstract Vulnerability assessments can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies targeted towards climate change and its
impacts on ecosystems, and those who depend upon these resources for their
livelihoods and well-being. Vulnerability is often reflected in the state of the economic system as well as the socio-economic features of the population living in that
system. The current paper attempts to build a picture of the socio-economic context
of vulnerability by focusing on indicators that measure both the state of development of the people as well as its capacity to progress further. The result of agricultural vulnerability index suggests indicators like cropping intensity, gross
irrigated area and commercial crop area that are the major drivers in determining the
vulnerability of districts of Karnataka. The socio-economic index depicts indicators
like per capita income, population density and percentage of literacy rate that are
the major drivers and contribute to the overall livelihood vulnerability of districts.
Keywords Climate change Á Vulnerability index Á Principal component analysis Á
Agricultural vulnerability Á Socio-economic vulnerability Á Karnataka Á India
This paper was submitted to the International Conference on Climate Change and
Social-Ecological—Economical Interface-Building: Modeling Approach to Exploring
Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bioresource Conservation and Livelihood Development
held on May 20–21, 2015, at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India.
K.V. Raju (&)
ICRISAT Development Center, International Crop Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Telangana, India
e-mail: kv.raju@cgiar.org
R.S. Deshpande
ICSSR, Bangalore, India
e-mail: rs.kalbandi@gmail.com
B. Satyasiba
CEENR, ISEC, Bangalore, India
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_11
161
Vulnerability Across Districts
of Karnataka
K.V. Raju, R.S. Deshpande and B. Satyasiba
Abstract Vulnerability assessments can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies targeted towards climate change and its
impacts on ecosystems, and those who depend upon these resources for their
livelihoods and well-being. Vulnerability is often reflected in the state of the economic system as well as the socio-economic features of the population living in that
system. The current paper attempts to build a picture of the socio-economic context
of vulnerability by focusing on indicators that measure both the state of development of the people as well as its capacity to progress further. The result of agricultural vulnerability index suggests indicators like cropping intensity, gross
irrigated area and commercial crop area that are the major drivers in determining the
vulnerability of districts of Karnataka. The socio-economic index depicts indicators
like per capita income, population density and percentage of literacy rate that are
the major drivers and contribute to the overall livelihood vulnerability of districts.
Keywords Climate change Á Vulnerability index Á Principal component analysis Á
Agricultural vulnerability Á Socio-economic vulnerability Á Karnataka Á India
This paper was submitted to the International Conference on Climate Change and
Social-Ecological—Economical Interface-Building: Modeling Approach to Exploring
Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bioresource Conservation and Livelihood Development
held on May 20–21, 2015, at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India.
K.V. Raju (&)
ICRISAT Development Center, International Crop Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Telangana, India
e-mail: kv.raju@cgiar.org
R.S. Deshpande
ICSSR, Bangalore, India
e-mail: rs.kalbandi@gmail.com
B. Satyasiba
CEENR, ISEC, Bangalore, India
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
S. Nautiyal et al. (eds.), Climate Change Challenge (3C)
and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building, Environmental Science,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_11
161