Household Level Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability of North Bank Plains Zone Farmers of Assam

The study was carried out to assess the vulnerability of farmers to climate change in northbank plains zone of Assam. For this 2 districts were selected randomly from the northbank plains zone of Assam i.e., Sonitpur and Udalguri. A household level survey was carriedout with the selected farmers to obtain the primary data. For this, total 120 farmers wereselected from 6 different villages through proportionate random sampling. Vulnerabilityindex was worked out by considering 10 different indicators. Findings revealed that 69.17per cent of farmers belonged to medium vulnerability category followed by 16.67 per centand 14.17 per cent in high and low vulnerability category respectively. The meanvulnerability score was 0.455 indicating that, on an average, respondents had mediumvulnerability to climate change. Most of the respondents are belonged to medium category.

Building climate change adaptation indicator set for Moc Hoa district, Long An province

To date, work in the field of climate change adaptation has resulted in many strategies for adaptation. In Vietnam, there have been many climate change adaptation activities implemented but has not been evaluated fully on effectiveness so that we can modify or make a replica of them systematically. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of carried out climate change adaptation activities, it is necessary to assess the current status of climate change adaptation for each local. In this paper, a set of CCA status evaluation indicators was developed and appreciated for Moc Hoa district, Long An province, to support a comprehensive assessment of the adaptation ability of this study area, the validity of investment resources allocation, and vulnerability to expose suitable policies. This set includes three indicators which are natural environment resilience, climate change vulnerability and climate change risk mitigation. The results showed that the environmental resilience indicators and the risk mitigation indicators were arranged at the medium level, while the climate change vulnerability indicators were high.

Vulnerability to Climate Change of “Giant Squid” (Thysanoteuthis rhombus) Fishery in Marinduque, Philippines

The Philippine fisheries sector has been affected by the impacts of climate change. Vulnerability to climate change pertains to a natural system's ability to cope with the negative impacts of climate change, variability, and extremes. Vulnerability Assessment (VA) provides a framework for climate change impacts evaluation over a broad range of systems. Tools such as Fisheries Vulnerability Assessment Tool (Fish Vool) have been developed to do VA. The "giant squid" diamondback (Thysanoteuthis rhombus) fishery in the province of Marinduque is an essential source of food and livelihood in the area. However, its vulnerability to climate change impacts has not been assessed. In this study, the "giant squid" fishery in Gasan, Marinduque, was assessed using Fish Vool. Results revealed that overall climate change vulnerability of the fishery is high, where both sensitivity and adaptive capacity are medium while exposure is high. Overall, the study provided a better understanding of the "giant squid" fishery vis-à-vis climate change and provided information for future fisheries management and conservation in the province.