1. People's Perception to Climate Change in Remote Himalayan Mountains and Rainfall Variability in the Kailash Sacred Landscape-India
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Swati Naidu, Subrat Sharma, Yahya Kazmi, Arti Joshi, Nikita Dalal, Bhawana Soragi, and Shikha Chaudhary
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0106 biological sciences ,Adaptive capacity ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,business.industry ,Effects of global warming on oceans ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Vulnerability ,Climate change ,Climatic variables ,Livelihood ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Geography ,Agriculture ,Perception ,Physical geography ,business ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common - Abstract
Climate change is a gradual on-going phenomenon which has been hastened by anthropogenic activities. With the rise in temperature it is observed that the usual rainfall pattern changes. Absolute analysis of climate variables (in the present case rainfall) for developing an understanding of climatic patterns is required to strengthen the link between the rural livelihood and vulnerability reduction. The study analyzed the historical rainfall data for hundred years and survey based perception of people. The findings are a clear indication of change in rainfall pattern for the districts of Kumaun region and for district Pithoragarh of Uttarakhand and its impacts associated with the sectors of agriculture and various services that will affect the rural population dwelling in the fragile mountains.
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- 2018
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