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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 capita income, population density and percentage of literacy rate that are the major drivers and contribute to the overall livelihood vulnerability of districts.
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.
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Raju, K.V., Deshpande, R.S., Satyasiba, B. (2016). Socio-economic and Agricultural Vulnerability Across Districts of Karnataka. In: Nautiyal, S., Schaldach, R., Raju, K., Kaechele, H., Pritchard, B., Rao, K. (eds) Climate Change Challenge (3C) and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31014-5_11
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