Empirical assessment of adaptation to climate change impacts of mountain households: development and application of an Adaptation Capability Index

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1503-1514

  Pandey, Rajiv ^a   Maithani, Nandini ^b   Aretano, Roberta ^c   Zurlini, Giovanni ^c   Archie, Kelli M ^d   Gupta, Ajay K ^b   Pandey, Vishnu Prasad ^e  

^a Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education   (India)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e Asian Institute of Technology and Management (AITM)   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Adaptation strategy; Adjustment practice; Climate change; Resilience; Social networking; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INDEX METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; NETWORKING; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN REGION; VULNERABILITY;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84978877706     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-015-3499-5     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Adger WN (2006) Vulnerability. Global Environment Change 16: 268–28. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.02.006
2. Adger WN, Brooks N, Bentham G, et al. (2004) New indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity. Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Report 7, Tyndall Centre, Norwich, UK.
3. Adger WN, Vincent K (2005) Uncertainty in adaptive capacity. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 337: 399–410. DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2004.11.004
4. Agrawal A, Perrin N (2009) Climate adaptation, local institutions and rural livelihoods. In: Adger WN, et al. (Eds.), Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. USA.
5. Ariza C, Maselli D, Kohler T (2013) Mountains: Our life, our future. Progress and perspectives on sustainable mountain development from Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and beyond. Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Bern, Switzerland. p 90.
6. Baul TK, Ullah KM, Tiwari KR, et al. (2013) People’s local knowledge of climate change in the Middle-Hills of Nepal. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 12(4): 585–595.
7. Below TB, Mutabaz KD, Kirschke D, et al. (2012) Can farmers’ adaptation to climate change be explained by socioeconomic household level variables? Global Environmental Change 22(1): 1–13. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.012
8. Boko M, Niang I, Nyong A, et al. (2007) Africa-climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. In: Parry ML et al. (eds.), Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. pp 433–467.
9. Bryan E, Deressa T, Gbetibouo G, et al. (2009) Adaptation to climate change in Ethiopia and South Africa: options and constraints. Environmental Science & Policy 12: 413–426. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2008.11.002
10. Chakraborty A, Joshi PK, Ghosh A, et al. (2013) Assessing biome boundary shifts under climate change scenarios in India. Ecological Indicators 34: 536–547 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.06.013
11. Chambers R, Conway GR (1992) Sustainable rural livelihoods: practical concepts for the 21st century IDS. IDS Discussion Paper No 296, Brighton, UK.
12. Chaudhary P, Bawa SK (2011) Local perceptions of climate change validated by scientific evidence in the Himalayas. Biology Letters 7(5): 767–770. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0269
13. Deressa TT, Hassan RM, Ringler C, et al. (2009) Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Global Environmental Change 19(2): 248–255. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.01.002
14. Dev SM (2011) Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (focus on Food Security) in Asia-Pacific Region. Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Available online at: http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2011-014.pdf (Assessed on 11 January 2015)
15. Eriksson M, Jianchu X, Shrestha AB, et al. (2009) The Changing Himalayas: Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Livelihoods in the Greater Himalayas. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Available online at: http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/fileadmin/wwc/Library/Publications_and_reports/Climate_ Change/PersPap_01._The_Changing_Himalayas.pdf (Accessed on 20 January 2015)
16. Falcon WP, Naylor RL, Smith WL, et al. (2004) Using climate models to improve Indonesian food security. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 40(3): 355–377.
17. Füssel HM (2007) Adaptation planning for climate change: concept, assessment approaches, and key lessons. Sustainability Science 2(2): 265–275. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-007-0032-y
18. Fussel HM, Klein RJT (2006) Climate change vulnerability assessments: An evolution of conceptual thinking. Climatic Change 75: 301–329. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-0329-3
19. Gain AK, Giupponi C, Renaud FG (2012) Climate change adaptation and vulnerability assessment of water resources systems in developing countries: a generalized framework and a feasibility study in Bangladesh. Water 4: 345–366. DOI: 10.3390/w4020345
20. Gentle P, Maraseni TN (2012) Climate change, poverty and livelihoods: adaptation practices by rural mountain communities in Nepal. Environmental Science & Policy 21: 24–34. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.03.007
21. Gerlitz JY, Hunzai K, Hoermann B (2012) Mountain poverty in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 33(2): 250–265. DOI: 10.1080/02255189.2012.689613
22. GoU (2011a) Statistical Book: Dehradun District. Office of District Economics and Statistics, Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
23. GoU (2011b) Statistical Book: Pauri Garhwal District. Office of District Economics and Statistics, Pauri-Garhwal, Uttarakhand.
24. Hahn MB, Riederer AM, Foster SO (2009) The livelihood vulnerability index: a pragmatic approach to assessing risks from climate variability and change-a case study in Mozambique. Global Environment Change 19(1): 74–88. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.11.002
25. Hinkel J (2011) Indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity: Towards a clarification of the science-policy interface. Global Environmental Change 21: 198–208. DOI: 10.1016/j. gloenvcha.2010.08.002
26. ICIMOD (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development) (2011) Framework for Community-Based Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment in Mountain Areas. ICIMOD, Kathmandu. Available online at: http://lib.icimod.org/record/8096/files/attachment_741.pdf (Accessed on 23 December, 2015)
27. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2001) Climate change 2001: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
28. IPCC (2001) Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, McCarthy, JJ, Canziani, OF, Leary, NA, Dokken, DJ, and White, KS, (eds.),. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
29. IPCC (2014) Summary for policymakers. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. In: Field CB et al. (eds.),. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. pp 1–32.
30. IPCC (2007) Climate change 2007: The fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. pp 74–78.
31. Kohler T, Giger M, Hurni H, et al. (2010) Mountains and climate change: a global concern. Mountain Research and Development 30 (1): 53–55. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNALD-09-00086.1
32. Lemos MC, Kirchhoff CJ, Ramprasad V (2012) Narrowing the climate information usability gap. Nature Climate Change 2(11): 789–794. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1614
33. Linnekamp F, Koedam A, Baud ISA (2011) Household vulnerability to climate change: Examining perceptions of households of flood risks in Georgetown and Paramaribo. Habitat International 35(3): 447–456. DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2010.12.003
34. Maddison DJ (2007) The Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no. 4308. Available online at: http://www. ceepa.co.za/docs/CDPNo10.pdf (Accessed 23/03/2011).
35. Mano R, Nhemachena C (2007) Assessment of the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zimbabwe: a Ricardian approach. Policy Research Working Paper No. 4292. World Bank, Washington DC, USA.
36. Marston RA (2008) Land, life, and environmental change in mountains. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(3): 507–520. DOI: 10.1080/00045600802 118491
37. McCarthy JJ, Canziani O, Leary NA, et al. (eds) (2001) Climate change 2001: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. IPCC working group II. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
38. Mendelsohn R (2008) The impact of climate change on agriculture in developing countries. Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research 1: 5–19.
39. Miller BW, Morisette JT (2014) Integrating research tools to support the management of social-ecological systems under climate change. Ecology and Society 19(3): 41. DOI: 10.5751/ES-06813-190341
40. Mycoo MA (2014) Autonomous household responses and urban governance capacity building for climate change adaptation: Georgetown, Guyana. Urban Climate 9: 134–154. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.07.009
41. Nhemachena C, Hassan R (2007) Micro-Level Analysis of Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change in Southern Africa. IFPRI Discussion Paper 00714, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI, Washington DC, USA.
42. Pandey R, Jha SK (2012) Climate vulnerability index-measure of climate change vulnerability to communities: a case of rural Lower Himalaya, India. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 17(6): 487–506. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-011-9338-2
43. Pandey R, Kala S, Pandey VP (2014) Assessing climate change vulnerability of water at household level. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-014-9556-5
44. Rajwar GS (1993) Garhwal Himalaya: Ecology and Environment. Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, India.
45. Sharma E (2012) Climate change and its impact in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: An Introduction. In: Lamadrid A, Ilan K (eds.), Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region. Vol 11. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK. pp 17–32.
46. Singh SP, Bassignana-Khadka I, Karky BS, et al. (2011) Climate change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: The state of current knowledge. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.
47. Smit B, Wandel J (2006) Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environmental Chang 16(3): 282–292. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.03.008
48. Skjeflo S (2013) Measuring household vulnerability to climate change—Why markets matter. Global Environmental Change 23: 1694–1701. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.011
49. Tiwari KR, Sitaula BK, Nyborg IP, et al. (2008) Determinants of Farmers’ adoption of improved soil conservation technology in a Middle Mountain watershed of Central Nepal. Environmental Management 42: 210–222. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9137-z
50. Tse-ring K, Sharma E, Chettri N, et al. (eds) (2010) Climate change vulnerability of mountain ecosystems in the Eastern Himalayas; Climate change impact an vulnerability in the Eastern Himalayas–Synthesis report. ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.
51. Urothody AA, Larsen HO (2010) Measuring climate change vulnerability: a comparison of two indexes. Banko Jankari 20(1): 9–16.
52. Vincent K (2004) Creating an index of social vulnerability to climate change for Africa. Working Paper 56, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and School of Environmental Sciences. University of East Anglia, Anglia, UK.
53. Vincent K (2007) Uncertainty in adaptive capacity and the importance of scale. Global Environmental Change 17: 12–24. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.11.009
54. Westerhoff L, Smit B (2009) The rains are disappointing us: dynamic vulnerability and adaptation to multiple stressors in the Afram Plains, Ghana. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 14: 317–337. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-008-9166-1
55. Zurick D, Karan PP (1999) Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.