climate change and its impact. However, in India it is important to understand the
trends of localized land use change and its impact on rural livelihood systems at
micro level. The micro-level investigations can help to identify what are trends of
changes in the climatic variables in the region, how these changes are impacting the
existing livelihood options and land use? Who are the vulnerable sections of the
society? What are impacts, how the affected communities are adapting to these
changes? How effective are the formal meso-level adaptation measures? and in this
endeavor what solution we would provide based on the researchers’ own research?
Thus, the attempt has been made to explore the above questions by intensive
empirical field studies in some of the geo-climatic regions of the country.
4 Need Attention to Create Proactive Response to Climate
Change and Associated Land Use Development
Climate change can be viewed as one of the most critical environmental problems
ever to confront us as it is most immediately and inextricably linked to well-being,
development, and economic growth. Thus, the response to it cannot be left to the
confines of the environment but needs to seek clarity and consolidate its response
relating the agendas and interests of the multiple constituencies (WWF online).
Therefore, climate change assessment has to be done in viewpoint of impact,
vulnerability, and adaptation in different agroecological regions of India. The
adaptation strategies are important to be evaluated for future sustainability.
5 Climate Change Assessment: Impact, Vulnerability,
and Adaptation
Impact assessment: Impact of climate change has to be assessed using the following approach:
• Climate variability: Assess current climate variability at micro level.
• Obtain climate data at regional level for all the study regions: temperature,
rainfall, droughts, floods etc.
• Select the sectors: rain fed and irrigated agriculture, evergreen and deciduous
forests, arid regions, river valley systems, and water resources availability etc.
• Models for impact assessment: Methodological perspective of the climate model
that need to be followed for this aspect.
• Collect secondary and primary data required for modeling from forests, farms,
streams, rivers etc.
• Research results make projections of climate impacts on biophysical and
socioeconomic indicators.
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trends of localized land use change and its impact on rural livelihood systems at
micro level. The micro-level investigations can help to identify what are trends of
changes in the climatic variables in the region, how these changes are impacting the
existing livelihood options and land use? Who are the vulnerable sections of the
society? What are impacts, how the affected communities are adapting to these
changes? How effective are the formal meso-level adaptation measures? and in this
endeavor what solution we would provide based on the researchers’ own research?
Thus, the attempt has been made to explore the above questions by intensive
empirical field studies in some of the geo-climatic regions of the country.
4 Need Attention to Create Proactive Response to Climate
Change and Associated Land Use Development
Climate change can be viewed as one of the most critical environmental problems
ever to confront us as it is most immediately and inextricably linked to well-being,
development, and economic growth. Thus, the response to it cannot be left to the
confines of the environment but needs to seek clarity and consolidate its response
relating the agendas and interests of the multiple constituencies (WWF online).
Therefore, climate change assessment has to be done in viewpoint of impact,
vulnerability, and adaptation in different agroecological regions of India. The
adaptation strategies are important to be evaluated for future sustainability.
5 Climate Change Assessment: Impact, Vulnerability,
and Adaptation
Impact assessment: Impact of climate change has to be assessed using the following approach:
• Climate variability: Assess current climate variability at micro level.
• Obtain climate data at regional level for all the study regions: temperature,
rainfall, droughts, floods etc.
• Select the sectors: rain fed and irrigated agriculture, evergreen and deciduous
forests, arid regions, river valley systems, and water resources availability etc.
• Models for impact assessment: Methodological perspective of the climate model
that need to be followed for this aspect.
• Collect secondary and primary data required for modeling from forests, farms,
streams, rivers etc.
• Research results make projections of climate impacts on biophysical and
socioeconomic indicators.
Research Approach to Analyze Climate Change Impacts in Rural …
565