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JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2019 VOLUME 10 | DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-056 SCIENTIFIC TRACK| DAY 1
The adverse effects of
climate change impacts
on rural people’s
livelihood
Dipti Basnet
Tongji University, China
Statement of the Problem:
The paper attempts to bring
rural peoples lived experience
on climate change and their
meaning-making process on
it. Principally, it explores the
contextual determinants and
dimensions of rural people’s
understanding of and response
to climate change. This paper
reviews effects, vulnerability and
adaptation to climate change
in Nepal, with the intention
of providing a broad overview
of the key issues related to
climate change facing by rural
people in particular country.
The paper further reveals that
amongst climate change impact,
agriculture is one of the sectors
most vulnerable. The impact is
even stronger to those people
who totally rely on agriculture
for the daily subsistence and
where adaptive capacity is
low. Migration has emerged as
cross-cutting issues of climate
change as they were compelled
to diversify their livelihood due
to the low production from their
agricultural land. The result of
several papers shows that the
existing local and institutional
strategies are not sufficient and
sustainable to cope with climatic
vagaries. Therefore, it is crucial
to increase the understanding
of the actual climate change
dynamics on the societies at the
lower levels.
Methodology & Theoretical
Orientation: We applied
qualitative approaches in order
to give an insight into how
people construct discourses of
understanding on climate change
and their action against it. The
study uses the semi-structured
interview as a tool to garner data
from the local level.
Findings: Most of the rural
people were unable to
comprehend the direct meaning
of climate change. However,
they were experiencing ongoing
changes in the climatic pattern.
Conclusion & Significance: The
impact of climate change was felt
in agriculture, livestock rearing,
water resources, etc. Amongst
the climate change impact, the
agriculture sector was hardest
hit.
Recommendations: As rural
people are heavily dependent
on agriculture, the government
should effort to stimulate the
structural transformation of
the agriculture sector from
subsistence to commercial
farming. In doing so, emphasis
should be given to organic
farming so that there will be
a win-win situation for both
the agriculturalist and the
environment.
Biography
Dipti Basnet as a NOMA scholar of the year
2010 studied Environmental Education and
Sustainable development at Kathmandu
Univeristy, Nepal. She worked in Women
Environmental Preservation Committee
NGOs in Nepal as a project coordinator
for 3years. Currently she is final year CSC
student of Environmental Science and
Engineering at Tongji University Shanghai,
China. She was born on 26th January 1987
in Dulegaunda VDC-9 of Tanahun District,
Western part of Nepal. Her research of
interests include Climate change; sustainable
forest management; environmental liability
and the relationship between human rights
and the environment; and conservation of
biodiversity.