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Class and climate‐change adaptation in rural India: Beyond community‐based adaptation models
Sustainable Development, Vol.29(3), pp.571-582
2021
Abstract
This article explores the ways in which class structure in agrarian societies shape local adaptation responses to the impact of climate change, based on an empirical study of a village society in western Maharashtra, India. It draws on two types of fieldwork data, quantitative and qualitative, including a round of household socio-economic survey questionnaire and qualitative semi-structured interviews. We show that climate-change adaptation is class specific and varies considerably amongst the different classes within the relations of production even in the same village. The local class structure shape ownership and access to natural resources, with implications for both individual adaptive capacities and attempts to organize adaptation practices at the community-level. Specifically, adaptive practice is revealed as being largely contingent on the size of land owned and livelihood options that affects, in turn, households' adaptation capacities and their experiences of climate change. We find that whilst the village inhabitants have initiated various adaptation strategies privately, no community-based adaptation practices could be identified. As such, we call for a more comprehensive understanding of the class nature of climate change for developing effective climate adaptation strategies at the village-community level and especially for community-based adaptation (CBA) models.
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- Title
- Class and climate‐change adaptation in rural India: Beyond community‐based adaptation models
- Authors
- Maryam Aslany (Corresponding Author) - University of OxfordShannon Brincat (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Publication details
- Sustainable Development, Vol.29(3), pp.571-582; 12
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.1002/sd.2201
- ISSN
- 1099-1719; 0968-0802
- Copyright note
- © 2021 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99533704402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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