Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India

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" Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India "
Debojyoti Das

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065639
Doc. No	:	LA109268
Call No	:	‭10.1186/s40728-015-0028-4‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Debojyoti Das
Title & Author	:	Changing climate and its impacts on Assam, Northeast India [Article]\ Debojyoti Das
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Bandung
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/1
Page No	:	1–13
Abstract	:	The paper explores climate change induced hydro hazards and its impact on tribal communities in Majuli (largest river island of Brahmaputra River Basin). The island has been experiencing recurrent floods, erosion, and siltation, which has distressed the socio-economic foundation and livelihood of the Mishing—a indigenous community on Northeast India, leading to out migration from the island. The indicators selected to capture the vulnerability of the island to climate change are dependency ratio; occurrence of natural hazards (floods) and coping methods; income of the household; and livelihood diversification. To gather the quantitative and qualitative data on these parameters the methods was designed to conduct both sample survey of households and focus group discussions. The findings reveal that in the selected villages, the dependency ratio is 4 (dependents): 1 (earning member); average income of the household is low i.e.
Descriptor	:	Adaptation
Descriptor	:	Agriculture
Descriptor	:	Floods
Descriptor	:	Majuli Island
Descriptor	:	Mising tribes
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1186/s40728-015-0028-4‬