Abstract
The impacts of climate change on the livelihood of agrarian households on the coast of the Indian Sundaraban Biosphere Reserve have not been addressed. Thus, it is important to identify the underlying factors for livelihood vulnerability in this region and know how climate change-related events and socio-economic conditions affect them. This work aimed to measure six major domains of livelihood vulnerability, such as overall livelihood loss, livestock loss, crop and crop area loss, fishing area loss, housing loss, and income loss. I selected the ordered probit regression and focus group discussion approaches. Results revealed that the significant determinant factors of livelihood vulnerability were early warning system, education, land holding size, social group, type of house, occupation, distance to the local market and health centre, membership of self-help group, agreement with summer temperature increased, cyclone increased, flood increased, drought in Kharif season increased. In this region, several agrarian households have taken some adaptation measures such as changing crop varieties, crop diversification, converting agriculture to fishery, and saline tolerant varieties. This approach is adaptable and can be put into practice on different levels, not just in other parts of India but also in diverse developing countries.
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