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REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 683-698Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0526-3
Keywords
Climate change adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Resilience; Disaster risk reduction; Mountain environments
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- Felix Scholarship, Environmental Change Institute
- St. Anne's College at the University of Oxford
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Human communities inhabiting remote and geomorphically fragile high-altitude regions are particularly vulnerable to climate change-related glacial hazards and hydrometeorological extremes. This study presents a strategy for enhancing adaptation and resilience of communities living immediately downstream of two potentially hazardous glacial lakes in the Upper Chenab Basin of the Western Himalaya in India. It uses an interdisciplinary investigative framework, involving ground surveys, participatory mapping, comparison of local perceptions of environmental change and hazards with scientific data, identification of assets and livelihood resources at risk, assessment of existing community-level adaptive capacity and resilience and a brief review of governance issues. In addition to recommending specific actions for securing lives and livelihoods in the study area, the study demonstrates the crucial role of regional ground-level, community-centric assessments in evolving an integrated approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for high-altitude environments, particularly in the developing world.
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