Coastal Community Climate Mitigation Test Starts in Kerala, India

Two marine fishing villages in Kerala have been chosen to test a climate resilient village adaptation and mitigation plan (CReVAMP) for vulnerable coastal communities in tropical countries. Elamkunnapuzha in Ernakulam and Poonthura in Thiruvananthapuram, which bear the maximum brunt of changes happening in the oceans, have been selected.

The study titled Gulls (Global understanding and learning for local solutions) will also cover places in southern Africa, western and southern Australia, Mozambique Channel, Brazil. "We assessed the climate change vulnerability of over 1,000 fishermen households in two major fishing villages of Kerala. Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity are the pertinent factors that determine the vulnerability.

The method used was a structured household questionnaire," said principal scientist at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) Shyam S Salim, who led the study. He said that the overall vulnerability was assessed and the analysis revealed that the Poonthura was more vulnerable of the two.

The coastal population were categorized as low, moderate, high and very high on their vulnerability scores and a geospatial analysis was attempted.

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