Study on Problems Associated with Climate Change Vulnerability Under Nuristan Circumstances

Abstract

Nuristan is among the top 34 most prone and highly vulnerable province experiencing intense and worsening extreme temperature weather conditions and natural disasters, including floods, landslide, mining, deforestation, human health, droughts, storms, avalanches and earthquakes. These disasters destroyed ecosystems and force people to leave their homes, displacement and provoke conflict over scarce natural resources. The populations reliant on agriculture to survive, small changes to the climate have enormous impacts on growth times and yields, making food shortages more likely. These issues are increasing in frequency as a result of climate change and years of environmental degradation, eroding future resilience, exposing people to critical losses in livelihoods and assets. The province is face a major climate change crisis, including unrelenting deforestation, losses of vegetative cover, overgrazing, and land and pasture degradation. Once-thriving communities are now losing their livestock and livelihoods, which worsens economic hardship. Nuristan most vulnerable and least equipped prepared to deal with the consequences adapt to climate change. As they have limited capacity to adapt to the changing conditions, often using outdated techniques that are no longer suitable or effective. Success in adapting to climate change depend on the availability of necessary resources including financially, technical capacity and institutional capacity all are critical constraints for Nuristan and more adequate institutional capacity is key requirements