Naslov
Climate vulnerability and economic determinants: Linkages and risk reduction in Sagar Island, India; A geospatial approach

Autori
Bera, Aparna ; Taloor, Ajay Kumar ; Meraj, Gowhar ; Kanga, Shruti ; Singh, Suraj Kumar ; Đurin, Bojan ; Anand, Subhash

Izvornik
Quaternary Science Advances (2666-0334) 4 (2021); 1-11

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
nema ; none
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Sažetak
Climate vulnerability is the propensity to be adversely affected by climatic variability and natural hazards. People of low-lying islands face accelerating physical and non-physical stresses due to their greater exposure, higher sensitivity, and lower adaptive capacity towards climate change. Being home to over 0.2 million people, Sagar Island, the largest Island of Sundarban, is highly susceptible to coastal erosion, cyclonic storm surges, flooding, and embankment breaching, causing loss of land, property, and livelihood that eventually lead to displacements and induced migration. Over the past two decades, residents of this fragile sinking island of this world’s largest mangrove forest have seen their homes engulfed, farmlands salinized and livelihood depleted by the rising sea. This study investigates the association between socio- economic vulnerabilities through the contextual indicators of land loss, productivity loss, loss of livelihood, and induced migration through regression modeling to find out linkages and scopes of risk reduction. The result reflects a significant positive correlation between land loss and loss of livelihood (p 0.0494*) that negatively correlates with the occurrence of in- migration (z

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Građevinarstvo, Interdisciplinarne tehničke znanosti

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