Household livelihood resilience of pastoralists and smallholders to climate change in Western Himalaya, India.

ABSTRACT: Smallholders and pastoralists are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to their high reliance on socio-ecological systems for their livelihood. Building their resilience to these adverse effects of climate change is crucial for mitigating their vulnerabilities, especially in remote and fragile ecosystems. This study aims to assess the climate change livelihood resilience of smallholders and pastoralists in the Indian Himalayas. We build a livelihood resilience index, using the three dimensions of resilience, namely assimilative capacity, autopoiesis and cognitive ability, and weighed using entropy-TOPSIS approach The dimensions of resilience was estimated through indicators by a household survey of 289 randomly selected respondents across the three districts of Garh

SUBMITTER: Kapruwan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10825354 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature