Vulnerability of Chepang households to climate change and extremes in the Mid-Hills of Nepal

Piya, Luni; Joshi, Niraj Prakash; Maharjan, Keshav Lall

doi:10.1007/s10584-015-1572-2

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“…Some studies used equal weight, as in Hahn et al (2009), while some preferred to consult with an expert, as in Chhinh and Cheb (2013). The most common method for the weighing indicator was Principal Component Analysis (PCA), as recommended in (Gbetibouo and Ringler 2009;Piya et al 2012;Megersa 2015). This paper used the PCA approach to assign weight.…”

Section: Vulnerability Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia: A Case Study in Koh Kong Province

2017

Economies

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This study investigates an urban climate vulnerability in Cambodia by constructing an index to compare three different communes, Smach Meanchey, Daun Tong, and Steong Veng, located in the Khemarak Phoumin district, Koh Kong province. It is found that Daun Tong commune is the most vulnerable location among the three communes, followed by Steong Veng. Besides, vulnerability as Expected Poverty (VEP) is used to measure the vulnerability to poverty, that is, the probability of a household income to fall below the poverty line, as it captures the impact of shocks can be conducted in the cross-sectional study. It applies two poverty thresholds: the national poverty line after taking into account the inflation rate and the international poverty line defined by the World Bank, to look into its sensitivity. By using the national poverty line, the study reveals that more than one-fourth of households are vulnerable to poverty, while the international poverty threshold shows that approximately one-third of households are in peril. With low levels of income inequality, households are not highly sensitive to poverty; however, both poverty thresholds point out that the current urban poor households are more vulnerable than non-poor families.

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Section: Vulnerability Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Note: *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05 Piya et al (2012) explained that access to loans could be a social safety net to overcome all types of shocks. However, in this study, credit accessibility revealed an unexpected sign.…”

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Urban Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia: A Case Study in Koh Kong Province

2017

Economies

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“…For smallholders, losing livestock has a great impact and lasting effect on livelihood so that livestock sickness and mortality could even trigger chronic poverty. High vulnerability and reduced livelihood options has increased off-season migration to India and more distant countries, which has increased the risks of indebtedness of poor families and put additional burden on women, children and elder population to cope [24].…”

Section: Livelihood Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

National Livestock Policy of Nepal: Needs and Opportunities

Pradhanang

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Agriculture

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This paper describes Nepal's national livestock policies and considers how they can be improved to help meet the pressing national challenges of economic development, equity, poverty alleviation, gender mainstreaming, inclusion of marginalized and underprivileged communities, and climate vulnerability. Nepal is in the process of transforming its government from a unitary system to a federal democratic structure through the new constitution expected by 2015, offering the opportunity to bring a new set of priorities and stakeholders to policymaking. Nepal's livestock subsector comes most directly within the purview of the National Agricultural Policy 2004, Agro-Business Policy, 2006 and Agricultural Sectoral Operating Policies of the Approach Paper to 13th Plan, OPEN ACCESSAgriculture 2015, 5 104 2012/13-2015/16 policy instruments. We systematically review these and other livestock-related national policies through analysis of their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT). We conclude with the need to formulate a separate, integrated national livestock policy so that Nepal can sustainably increase livestock productivity and achieve diversification, commercialization and competitiveness of the livestock subsector within the changing national and international contexts.

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“…The equal weighing (EW) approach, which gives all variables the same weight, is applied to aggregate indicators [53]. The statistical model of principal components analysis (PCA), which groups all variables according to their degree of correlation, was first used by Cutter in social vulnerability assessments and has become one of the classic models for evaluating social vulnerability in the fields of natural hazards and climate change [54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61]. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), as a multi-criteria decision-making approach, is another method suitable for assessing social vulnerability to climate change [62][63][64][65][66].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%