Abstract
Abstract. The Human Dimension of the Twinning European and South Asian River Basins to Enhance Capacity and Implement Adaptive Management Approaches Project (EC-Project BRAHMATWINN) is aimed at developing socio-economic tools and context for the effective inclusion of the "Human Dimension" or socio-economic vulnerability into the overall assessment of climate risk in the twinned basins of the Upper Brahmaputra River Basin (UBRB), and the Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) . This work is conducted in the light of stakeholder/actor analysis and the prevailing legal framework. In order to effectively achieve this end, four key research and associated activities were defined: 1. Identifying stakeholders and actors including: implement an approach to ensure a broad spread of appropriate stakeholder input to the assessment of vulnerability undertaken in Asia and Europe within the research activities of the project. 2. Contextualising legal framework: to provide an assessment of the governance framework relating to socio-environmental policy development within the study site administrative areas leading to the specific identification of related policy and legal recommendations. 3. Spatial analysis and mapping of vulnerability: providing a spatial assessment of the variation of vulnerability to pre-determined environmental stressors across the study areas with an additional specific focus on gender. 4. Inclusion of findings with the broader context of the BRAHMATWINN risk of climate change study through scenarios of hazard and vulnerability (subsequent chapters). This study utilises stakeholder inputs to effectively identify and map relative weightings of vulnerability domains, such as health and education in the context of pre-specified hazards such as flood. The process is underpinned by an adaptation of the IPCC (2001) which characterizes Risk as having the components of Hazard (physiographic component) and Vulnerability (socio-economic component).
Highlights
Climate change and its resulting effects on the environment, affects the socio-economic wellbeing of individuals, households, communities and nations
A valuable outcome of the twinning approach has been the delineation of two clear paradigms in the thinking of the production and utilization of vulnerability maps
Characterised through assets, whereas in the Assam region of the Asian Upper Brahmaputra River Basin (UBRB) a strong focus lies on the defining characteristics of poverty at the community level
Summary
Climate change and its resulting effects on the environment, affects the socio-economic wellbeing of individuals, households, communities and nations. These being the Assam State Brahmaputra river section (NE India), the Wang Chu River Basin in Bhutan and the Lhasa River basin in the Autonomous Region of Tibet along with the Salzach and Lech River basins of the Upper Danube in Europe. These case studies are selected on the basis that they represent basins/sub-basins under potential environmental threat due to climate change
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