People’s Perception on Climate Change and Adaptation Strategy (A Study in Dudhauli Municipality, Sindhuli, Nepal)

Abstract

This study entitled “People’s perception on Climate Change and Adaptation Strategy, A study in Dudhauli Municipality, Sindhuli, Nepal” was conducted from January 2019 to February 2019 with the broad objective to assess the perception of peoples on climate change and adaptation strategies adopt by the local people of Dudhauli municipality.

Human-caused climate change is clearly one of the most important issues of the twentyfirst

century, and understanding climate change its sources, impacts, and potential amelioration is an inherently sociological concern. It is well established that the primary drivers of global climate change are social-structural and sociocultural phenomena.

Hundred and sixteen households were surveyed with semi-structured questionnaire to document the people’s perception and adaptation strategy along with focus group discussion to assess the perception of people on climate change. The data were analyzed by qualitative as well as quantitative methods. The farmer’s perception on climate change was presented in bar diagram, pie-chart and tables.

The study concluded that, climatic variation has been observed with increasing temperature and unpredictable rainfall. Mosquitoes are sustain all the month, flowering season of different plants shift earlier than past, new pests and diseases are introduced are the sign of Climate Change face by the community and it has adverse impact on different component of the environment and society. Most of the respondents reported changes in climate and agriculture production practices. Farmers had shifted from large animals to smaller ones as a coping strategy. It shows its impacts on agriculture via Flood, drought and landslide etc. Adoption of new crop varieties, crop rotation, use of plastic tunnel in vegetable farming, water collection from kitchen sink were the major new practices introduced in the area which have a greater potential for out- and up-scaling. In response of these climatic variation and its impacts, local community developed the coping measures on the basis of event specific local knowledge and innovation.