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Abbravation: Regional Environmental Change

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Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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10.1007/978-81-322-2677-2_38

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1436-378X

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Climatic and environmental change in the Karakoram

Authors: Giovanna Gioli Talimand Khan Jürgen Scheffran
Publish Date: 2013/11/19
Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 1151-1162
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In this paper we investigate how mountain communities perceive and adapt to climatic and environmental change Primary data were collected at community and household level through indepth interviews focus group discussions and quantitative questionnaires covering 210 households in six villages of the West Karakoram Hundur and Darkut in the Yasin Valley Hussainabad Altit Gulmit and Shiskat in the Hunza valley of GilgitBaltistan The relevance of the area with respect to our scopes is manifold First this is one of the most extreme and remote mountainous areas of the world characterized by complex and fragile institutional and social fabrics Second this region is one of the focal points of research for the hydrometeoclimatological scientific community because of its relevance in terms of storage and variability of water resources for the whole Indus basin and for the presence of conflicting signals of climate change with respect to the neighboring regions Third the extreme hardships due to a changing environment as well as to the volatility of the social and economic conditions are putting great stress on the local population As isolating climate change as a single driver is often not possible community perceptions of change are analyzed in the livelihood context and confronted with multidrivers scenarios affecting the lives of mountain people We compare the collected perceptions with the available hydroclimatological data trying to answer some key questions such as how are communities perceiving coping with and adapting to climatic and environmental change Which are the most resorted adaptation strategies How is their perception of change influencing the decision to undertake certain adaptive measuresThe authors are thankful to the organizers of the “First International Conference on Politics of Water Resource Governance in The Indus Basin” Lahore 910 January 2013 for the kind invitation to present this work and to Dr Ghulam Rasul of the Pakistan Meteorological Department for his feedback and support GG and JS acknowledge the support given by the Cluster of Excellence “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction” Clisap of the University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany to the GEM project  The GEM project has been jointly conducted by the Research Group “Climate Change and Security CLISEC” of the University of Hamburg and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute  SDPI Islamabad  Pakistan This article contains some results included in the background paper commissioned by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ICIMOD under the Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Program HICAP which is implemented jointly by ICIMOD CICERO and UNEP/GRIDArendal and is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway and Swedish International Development Agency Sida

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