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Myths and Realities in the Perception of Climate Change among the Fishers in Kerala

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12337/
 
Title Myths and Realities in the Perception of Climate Change among
the Fishers in Kerala
 
Creator Shyam, S Salim
Safeena, P K
Rahman, M Ramees
Rosey Xavier, Smitha
Manjusha, U
Antony, Bindu
Shridhar, Nivedita
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description The exposure to bio physical and socio-economic impacts of
climate change are largely affecting the coastal community,
owing to the very nature of their high dependency on marine
resources makes the community more vulnerable. However, the
poor understanding of the range of possible impacts of climate
change by the community is a limiting factor to take up
adaptation and mitigation options and to make the community
more resilient. Hence, this study is to assess the level of
awareness of the community on different features of climate change in the two selected vulnerable coastal villages of
Ernakulam district, namely Ochanthuruth and Njarakkal, using
comprehensive interview schedule, was administered across
300 households. Perception analysis and Carett ranking were
employed to evaluate the scenario. The results revealed that 97
percent of the sample opined that the temperature is the most
significant visible feature of climate change. Substantial
reduction in income with a score of 94.44 and reduction in fish
catch witha score of 73.04 were found to be the major problems
perceived by respondents in relation to climate change. However, their awareness on climate change seems to be very
shallow as they could not properly delineate their climate
change problems from others.
 
Publisher Indian Fisheries Association, CIFE, Mumbai
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12337/1/Shyam%20Salim_2016_Journal%20of%20Indian%20Fisheries%20Association_43_2_Myths%20and%20Realities.pdf
Shyam, S Salim and Safeena, P K and Rahman, M Ramees and Rosey Xavier, Smitha and Manjusha, U and Antony, Bindu and Shridhar, Nivedita (2016) Myths and Realities in the Perception of Climate Change among the Fishers in Kerala. Journal of Indian Fisheries Association, 43 (2). pp. 22-36.