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Vulnerability of Coastal Fisher Households to Climate Change: A Case Study from Gujarat, India

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11603/
DOI: 10.4194/1303-2712-v17_1_21
 
Title Vulnerability of Coastal Fisher Households to Climate Change: A Case
Study from Gujarat, India
 
Creator Koya, Mohammed
Dash, Gyanaranjan
Kumari, Sonia
Sreenath, K R
Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen
Ambrose, T V
Shyam, S Salim
Kripa, V
Zacharia, P U
 
Subject Fishing Community
Climate Change
 
Description The impacts of climate change are invariably seen on agriculture, aquatic ecosystem, energy, and economics. The
fishery sector on which livelihood of world’s 36 million fishers depends is also not untouched but a little attention has been
given to study the vulnerability of fisherfolk population to climate change programs. Therefore, the present study was
envisaged to assess the vulnerability of fishers to the climate change in Junagadh district of Gujarat, India. The vulnerability
of 1500 fisher household was assessed using PARS (parameter, attribute, resilient indicator, score) methodology, in four
coastal villages namely Old light house, Bhidiya, Navabunder and Rajpara in Junagadh district. Five parameters viz., fishery,
economy, social, environmental and development drivers have been assessed as indicators of sensitivity, exposure and
adaptive capacity. ‘Economy’ was found to be the most impacted parameter consequent to climate change followed by the
‘social’ and ‘environmental’ parameters. The results obtained reflect low adaptive capacity of fishers that could be attributed
to lack of awareness, preparation, and mitigation option. Thus, the finding of the study could be used as a vital input while
developing the policy and suitable action plan to combat the impacts of climate change minimizing the risk to fisheries sector.
 
Date 2017
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/11603/1/Vulnerability%20Gujarat.pdf
Koya, Mohammed and Dash, Gyanaranjan and Kumari, Sonia and Sreenath, K R and Dash, Swatipriyanka Sen and Ambrose, T V and Shyam, S Salim and Kripa, V and Zacharia, P U (2017) Vulnerability of Coastal Fisher Households to Climate Change: A Case Study from Gujarat, India. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 17. pp. 193-203.