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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02870-8
	Watershed communities’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change in the Himalayas
	Adhikari S.; Dhungana N.; Upadhaya S.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	1307
结束页码	1321
卷号	162 期号:3
英文摘要	The Himalayan country like Nepal, due to its poor adaptive capacity and limited access to alternate means of livelihoods, is more vulnerable to climate change. It is found that climate change exacerbates the situation and presents a daunting challenge to predominantly rain-fed agricultural livelihoods. This study aims to analyze the extent and sources of households’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change in western Nepal. We conducted a household survey (n = 200), focus group discussions (n = 4), and key informant interviews (n = 10) across the Phusre Khola watershed and a formative composite index of livelihood vulnerability (LVI) was constructed. The result shows drought as the most common climatic hazard followed by landslide and hailstone, respectively. It was found that agriculture was the most impacted resources. Livelihood strategies with LVI value (0.49) and climate variability (0.48) were seen as the most vulnerable and health (0.12) as the least vulnerable component in the study area. The Upper Phusre sub-watershed was observed as the most vulnerable with the LVI (0.33). Overall, the study shows that vulnerability assessment indices can be broadly applied in similar settings in different regions of the country, and they could contribute to identifying and prioritizing adaptation and mitigation needs. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Climatic hazards; Livelihood; Vulnerability index; Watershed
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agricultural robots; Agriculture; Developing countries; Surveys; Watersheds; Adaptive capacity; Climate variability; Climatic hazards; Composite index; Household surveys; Key informants; Livelihood strategies; Vulnerability assessments; Climate change; adaptive management; climate change; household survey; livelihood; mitigation; prioritization; rainfed agriculture; vulnerability; watershed; Himalayas; Nepal
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/146994
作者单位	Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment, Bagmati Province, Division Forest Office, Chitwan, Nepal; CARE Nepal Central Office, 4/288 SAMATA Bhawan Dhobighat, P. O Box 1661, Lalitpur, Nepal; Himalayan Conservation and Research Institute, Dolpa, Nepal; Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Adhikari S.,Dhungana N.,Upadhaya S.. Watershed communities’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change in the Himalayas[J],2020,162(3).
APA	Adhikari S.,Dhungana N.,&Upadhaya S..(2020).Watershed communities’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change in the Himalayas.Climatic Change,162(3).
MLA	Adhikari S.,et al."Watershed communities’ livelihood vulnerability to climate change in the Himalayas".Climatic Change 162.3(2020).