Socio-economic and Agricultural Vulnerability Across Districts of Karnataka

Raju, K V and Deshpande, R S and Satyasiba, B (2016) Socio-economic and Agricultural Vulnerability Across Districts of Karnataka. In: Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building : Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development. Environmental Science and Engineering, Part 2 . Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 161-190. ISBN 978-3-319-31013-8

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Abstract

Vulnerability assessments can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies targeted towards climate change and its impacts on ecosystems, and those who depend upon these resources for their livelihoods and well-being. Vulnerability is often reflected in the state of the economic system as well as the socio-economic features of the population living in that system. The current paper attempts to build a picture of the socio-economic context of vulnerability by focusing on indicators that measure both the state of development of the people as well as its capacity to progress further. The result of agricultural vulnerability index suggests indicators like cropping intensity, gross irrigated area and commercial crop area that are the major drivers in determining the vulnerability of districts of Karnataka. The socio-economic index depicts indicators like per capital income, population density and percentage of literacy rate that are the major drivers and contribute to the overall livelihood vulnerability of districts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions:	Research Program : Asia
CRP:	CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems
Series Name:	Environmental Science and Engineering
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Climate change, Vulnerability index, Principal component analysis, Agricultural vulnerability, Socio-economic vulnerability, Karnataka, India
Subjects:	Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics Others > Climate Change
Depositing User:	Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2016 10:18
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2016 10:33
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9552
Acknowledgement:	This paper was submitted to the International Conference on Climate Change and Social-Ecological—Economical Interface-Building: Modeling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bioresource Conservation and Livelihood Development held on May 20–21, 2015, at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India. This book is part of Part of the series Environmental Science and Engineering.
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