Eyewitness Accounts on Climate Variability and the Responses
Perspectives from Farmers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7745152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Poudel (0000-0001-6383-4983, Tribhuvan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Pages | 171-190 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1994-2664 • E-ISSN: 1994-2672 |
| Publisher | Nepal Journals Online (JOL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6362 |
| OpenAlex | W1992994766 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
People with different socio-cultural arrangements havedifferent experiences and responses to climatic variability. The place specific experiences and responses at community level still remain a little explored issue in the discourse of climate change research. This paper deals with local experiences of climatic variability which have been monitoring by locals in their lifetime, on the one hand, and, on the other, explore their responses or coping mechanisms which they have been practicing to mitigate with climatic risks. Moreover, farmers’ experiences were documented in term of observed climatic variability in their lifetime focusing on qualitative data. I have used eyewitness accounts and hearsays to document their experiences of climatic variability. Moreover, farmers have developed various coping mechanisms such as indigenous knowledge, utilize kinship based social network, environment friendly cropping practices, and use of alternative sources of water (water-tanker, well-water) for irrigation, arrange rain-making ritual to cope with climatic uncertainty in their lifetime.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6362Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5, 2011: 171-90
Climate change · Climatic variability · Coping (psychology · Environmental resource management · Geography · Indigenous · Kinship · Sociology · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Ecology · Environmental Science · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |