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This research explores the nexus of climate change and socio-economic change with a focus on the significance that local conditions (physical and cultural) can have in influencing vulnerability and resilience. In order to better examine how climate change impacts interact with socio-economic changes and are experienced at the community scale, this research integrates household survey data with geospatial processing techniques. Two comparative study sites, one rural and one urban, were selected in the region of Ladakh; an area experiencing severe climate change impacts alongside rapid socioeconomic and political changes. Archival data was used to supplement survey responses and provide additional historical context. Survey responses were then combined with Hot Spot and Kernel density analysis in ArcGIS to identify areas of high and low spatial concentration and correlation. While climate change is widely perceived in many Western Himalayan mountain communities, impacts of climate change as an issue of high importance are moderated by other pressing socioeconomic, cultural, and political concerns. The role of locality and place-based themes such as community attachment, social cohesion, and sense of place, emerged as influential factors in enhancing social resilience and thereby reducing dimensions of local vulnerability to climate change impacts.
Keywords: climate change; adaptation; vulnerability; resilience; sense of place
1. Introduction
For communities situated in the world’s high mountain areas, climate change is generating an unpredictable, and at times, hazardous environment [1,2,3]. Climate change impacts are altering ecosystem functions and the human activities that depend on them. Rising air temperatures, receding glaciers, and extreme weather events are increasing at a scale and pace that poses significant challenges to many mountain populations [4]. Further, climate change impacts exacerbate ongoing socioeconomic, political, and ecological stresses, making it difficult to effectively respond to present and future risks [5,6]. The goal of this research is to understand the interactions between climate change and socio-economic change with a focus on the role that local conditions (physical, social, economic, and political) have in influencing vulnerability and resilience. We argue that it is important to take into account particular local conditions and the influence they have on vulnerability and resilience in order to develop effective climate change policies at larger scales.
In the Himalayas, climate change interrelates with other forces within the wider political economy to reshape traditional ways of life. Processes such as globalization, migration, and tourism, converge with climate change impacts to disrupt traditional subsistence systems [7,8,9]. At the local level however, there is limited understanding on how climate change interacts with broader social and economic forces to steer community response efforts [10]. This knowledge deficit in turn, hinders effective policy-making and may increase vulnerability [11,12,13].