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INLAND FISHERIES & CLIMATE CHANGE: VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION OPTIONS

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Title INLAND FISHERIES & CLIMATE CHANGE: VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION OPTIONS
INLAND FISHERIES & CLIMATE CHANGE: VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION OPTIONS
 
Creator A.P. Sharma, K.D. Joshi, M. Naskar, M.K. Das
 
Subject the degree to which a system is susceptible to or unable to cope with adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes”.
 
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The greatest limitation towards developing an effective adaptation strategy for climate change in
India is the lack of vulnerability assessment framework and vulnerability mapping of various climate
sensitive sectors of Indian economy. In the absence of such quantified data implementing adaptation
measures is difficult.
At present studies on the assessment of vulnerability of small scale fisheries sector and fishers to
climate change in the countries of Africa and South Asia are inadequate though fish forms 50 percent of
the essential animal protein intake of 400 million people of this region (World Bank 2004; FAO 2007).
Studies on the assessment of climate change vulnerability on fisheries sector has been done at the global
level (Allison et al. (2005); McClanahan et al. (2008); Allison et al. 2009). However, vulnerability
assessment at the local scale focusing impact of climate variability on the small-scale fishers of the
tropical region is meager.
The definition of vulnerability as provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) is “the degree to which a system is susceptible to or unable to cope with adverse effects of
climate change, including climate variability and extremes”. There are three main components of
vulnerability (V) as defined by the IPCC: exposure (E), sensitivity (S) and adaptive capacity (AC)
having a simple relation as V= f(E, S, AC) (Metzger et al. 2005). These three components may be
combined together in many ways to form relationship among themselves in a highly context-specific
manner.
ICAR through the All India Network Project on Climate change (NPCC) and the National
Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) has taken up the initiative to develop vulnerability
maps for the agriculture and fisheries sector in India.
The first significant contribution towards development of vulnerability index and vulnerability
mapping of the inland aquatic resources and fisheries to climate variability was conducted in 14
districts of the highest fish and fish seed producing state in India, West Bengal by Central Inland
Fisheries Research Institute.
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Date 2021-07-20T09:37:18Z
2021-07-20T09:37:18Z
2014-11-14
 
Type Technical Report
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/49177
 
Language English
 
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Publisher NICRA