Integrated vulnerability assessment to climate change in semi arid areas of Maharashtra
Student name: Ms Payal Negi
Guide: Dr Kamna Sachdeva
Year of completion: 2016
Host Organisation: Watershed Organization Trust (WOTR), Pune
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Ms Suchita Awasthi
Abstract: The study aimed at assessing the vulnerabilities of semi-arid area of Maharashtra lying in two different agro climatic subzones. The study focused in suing two different tools for the assessment i.e. Livelihood vulnerability Index given IPCC, which a quantitative tools and the other being Co-Drive PD which is a qualitative tool designed by Watershed Organisation Trust. The former uses a secondary data on the basis of few selected indicators while the latter uses focused group discussions and unstructured questionnaire as the source of data collection. Then both the tools were used to assess the vulnerabilities in all the four villages. The results were in the form of five capitals i.e. Natural, Financial, Human, Physical and Social. The rural livelihoods totally being an agrarian economy have a very weak Natural capital due to loss of the Natural resources. Both the tools have tried to capture the same. Other results using these tools show that one of village was the most vulnerability. Results vary in the vulnerable capitals the two different tools have tried to capture. Shishwad was the most vulnerable village using both the methodologies. Akole was also seen to be more vulnerable than Sangamner, because of various reasons. The final objective of the study shows that how both the tools can be combined in an efficient way to frame a policy. Both the tools complete a policy framing package wherein the positive point from qualitative and quantitative assessments can be chosen. This will help us get an efficient tool which incorporates both the quantitative and qualitative measures of data
Key words: Climate Change, Integrated Vulnerability, Capitals, LVI-IPCC, Co-Drive PD
