There is no doubt that climate change and climate induced-disasters pose a significant challenge to poverty reduction, health and development in many developing countries, including India. Odisha’s geographic location on the east coast of India and its climatic condition have meant that the state has historically been highly prone to climate change and multiple hazards, mainly cyclones, droughts and floods. Its fluctuating weather conditions suggest that Odisha is stumbling under climatic chaos. The state has been declared disaster-affected for 95 years of the last 105 years: floods have occurred for 50 years, droughts for 32 years and cyclones have struck the state for 11 years. After independence less importance has been given to the state as well as the development strategies of the state have tended to overlook the climate change, health, poverty related issues. The findings of the study highlight that there is a scarcity of research which can focus on different climatic induced calamity issues. Strong political will, strengthen infrastructures, public private partnership and community involvement and better planning can go beyond risk management to look at actions that address climate change and deliver benefits for growth and development. There is an urgent need to focus on the climate change, disasters and their vulnerability, and adaptation and coping mechanisms among the people in the state. The study recommends for future research and policy advocacy for better solutions and development strategies in the state.
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The largest generation of youth in history, there are 1.8 billion young people in the globe between the ages of 10 and 24. Young people are becoming more conscious of the risks and difficulties posed by the climate crisis as well as the chance for sustainable development provided by a solution to the problem.
The unprecedented global mobilization of young people demonstrates the enormous power they have to hold policymakers responsible.
Flooding’s occur when an extreme volume of water is carried by rivers, creeks and many other geographical features into areas where the water cannot be drained adequately. Often, during times of heavy rainfall, drainage systems in residential areas are not adequate or unchecked civil development severely impedes the functionality of an otherwise acceptable drainage system.
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Impacts of Climate Change in Coastal Aquaculture in Bangladesh : A Seminar Paperihn FreeStyle Corp.
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Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
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Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
• Remote control: Parallel or serial interface
• Compatible with MAFI CCR system
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• Compatible with Backplane mount serial communication.
• Compatible with commercial and Defence aviation CCR system.
• Remote control system for accessing CCR and allied system over serial or TCP.
• Indigenized local Support/presence in India.
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• Compatible with MAFI CCR system.
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Climate Change and Climate-Induced Disasters in Odisha, Eastern India: Impacts, Adaptation and Future Policy Implications
1. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention
ISSN (Online): 2319 – 7722, ISSN (Print): 2319 – 7714
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Climate Change and Climate-Induced Disasters in Odisha,
Eastern India: Impacts, Adaptation and Future Policy
Implications
Sangram Kishor Patel*
Senior Program Officer, Population Council, 142, Golf Links, New Delhi, India
ABSTRACT: There is no doubt that climate change and climate induced-disasters pose a significant
challenge to poverty reduction, health and development in many developing countries, including India. Odisha’s
geographic location on the east coast of India and its climatic condition have meant that the state has
historically been highly prone to climate change and multiple hazards, mainly cyclones, droughts and floods. Its
fluctuating weather conditions suggest that Odisha is stumbling under climatic chaos. The state has been
declared disaster-affected for 95 years of the last 105 years: floods have occurred for 50 years, droughts for 32
years and cyclones have struck the state for 11 years. After independence less importance has been given to the
state as well as the development strategies of the state have tended to overlook the climate change, health,
poverty related issues. The findings of the study highlight that there is a scarcity of research which can focus on
different climatic induced calamity issues. Strong political will, strengthen infrastructures, public private
partnership and community involvement and better planning can go beyond risk management to look at actions
that address climate change and deliver benefits for growth and development. There is an urgent need to focus
on the climate change, disasters and their vulnerability, and adaptation and coping mechanisms among the
people in the state. The study recommends for future research and policy advocacy for better solutions and
development strategies in the state.
Keywords: climate change, disasters, impact, adaptation, Odisha, India
I. Background
Climate change is now a global phenomena and its impact on population, health and poverty are not deniable.
There is no doubt that climate change and climate induced-disasters pose a significant challenge to poverty
reduction, health and development in many countries. However, the impacts of climate change, and the
vulnerability of poor communities to climate change, vary greatly, but generally, climate change is
superimposed on existing vulnerabilities. Climate change will further reduce access to drinking water,
negatively affect the health of poor people, and will pose a real threat to food security in many countries in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Sperling, 2003). It is well evident that recent climate-induced disasters have
had direct impacts on poor countries and on poor people. The poverty-climate links focused on the poor as the
most vulnerable to climate change is now a day’s one of the emerging international attention, as they have the
least human, financial, and technical resources to adapt (Sperling, 2003; Burton et al, 2002; Tol et al, 2004).
According to the third assessment report of the IPCC (2014), developing countries are expected to suffer the
most from the negative impacts of climate change (IPCC, 2014). This is due to the economic importance of
climate-sensitive sectors (for example, agriculture, water resources and fisheries) to these countries, and to their
limited human, institutional, and financial capacity to anticipate and respond to the direct and indirect effects of
climate change. In general, the vulnerability is highest in least developed countries in the tropical and
subtropical areas. Hence, the countries with the fewest resources are likely to bear the greatest burden of climate
change in terms of loss of life and relative effect on investment and the economy (Sperling, 2003).
II. Impact of Climate Change and Climate-Induced Disasters
The adverse impacts of climate change are most striking in the developing nations because of their geographical
and climatic conditions, their high dependence on natural resources, and their limited capacity to adapt to the
changing climate. Within these countries, the poor, who have the least resources and the least capacity to adapt,
are the most vulnerable (IPCC, 2014). Projected changes in the incidence, frequency, intensity, and duration of
climate extremes (for example, heat waves, heavy precipitation, and drought), as well as more gradual changes
in the average climate, will notably threaten their livelihoods – further widen the inequities between the
developing and developed regions. Odisha, an eastern state of India is a prime example of this is particularly
vulnerable to today’s erratic climate. Odisha’s geographic location on the east coast of India and its climatic
condition have meant that the state has historically been highly prone to climate change and multiple hazards,
such as cyclones, droughts and floods (Bhatta, 1997; GoO, 2002a; GoO, 2002b; GoO, 2002c; GoO, 2002d;
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GoO, 2002e). Ray Bennett (2009) reported that Odisha is the land of multiple disasters. For over a decade now,
Odisha has been teetering from one extreme weather condition to another: from heat waves to cyclones, drought
to floods (Ray-Bennett, 2009). The state has been declared disaster-affected for 95 years of the last 105 years:
floods have occurred for 50 years, droughts for 32 years and cyclones have struck the state for 11 years
(Mohapatra, 2006). Since 1965, these calamities have not only become more frequent, they are striking areas
that have never experienced such conditions before. For instance, a heat wave in 1998 killed around 2,200
people - most of the casualties were from coastal Odisha, a region known for its moderate climate. Since 1998,
almost 3,000 people have died due to heat stroke. Odisha has experienced around 952 small and big cyclones
and 451 tornadoes between 1891 and 1970. From 1901 to 1981 there were 380 cyclones, of which 272 resulted
from depressions in the Bay of Bengal. Twenty-nine of these cyclones were devastating. A study of the effects
of natural disasters reveals that between 1963 and 1999, Odisha experienced 13 major disasters, which killed
22,228 people (state government figure; non-government figure puts the toll at around 40,000), and rendered
more than 34 lakhs of people homeless (Mohapatra, 2006). The state’s mean daily maximum temperature is also
gradually rising, as also the mean daily minimum temperature. According to data from the weather department,
in the last 50 years the state’s average temperature has gone up by 1 degree. The Titilagarh and Koraput belt
comprising south and west Odisha has witnessed an exceptional increase in daily maximum and minimum
temperatures (Hedger, 2010).
Its fluctuating weather conditions suggest that Odisha is stumbling under climatic chaos. According to the state
government’s Human Development Report 2004, property loss has been steadily growing every year over the
past few decades due to climate change and disasters (GoO, 2004). Odisha is rainfall dependent as its irrigation
network does not cover the entire state. With a water dependent crop, rice, as its main staple, the agriculture
sector is vulnerable to the vagaries of climate-induced weather changes. Food security is also threatened in
different parts of Odisha due to climate change induced disasters. Rise in temperature and sea level has made
agriculture vulnerable as the gushing seawater combined with erratic rain often destroys the crops. Seawater is
more often gushing into the agricultural land filling with saline water, which directly affecting the farmers and
slowly weakening the productivity of the state. As per Global Environmental Negotiation journal, if sea level
rises 1 meter from the current level, 1,70,000 hectare of cultivable land in Orissa will be submerged (Pati, 2009).
Agriculture across the coast of Odisha is now facing a serious climate emergency. In terms of health impact of
the climate change, the vector borne disease – Malaria is rampant in many parts of the state. At the same time,
due to deviation in the pattern of rainfall, neither during heavy rainfall nor during scanty rainfall, water
percolating to the ground water table. In addition, due to massive de-forestation and soil erosion, the perennial
sources like streams are vanished, rivers are getting flat and ground water is no more getting recharged through
those perennial sources. The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has clearly indicated that the ground water
of 24 out of 30 districts in Orissa is depleting (Pati, 2009). The ground water aquifers in many regions of the
state have already gone dry. Ground water is the last hope of a water starved population. The climatic variations
could further multiply the vulnerability of poor by adversely affecting their health and livelihoods and
hampering the development of the state. It is evident that climate change in Odisha has the potential to
tremendously aggravate water stress, food security and health system.
III. Adaptation and Coping Mechanisms
In some way it is also useful to consider the impact of climate change and climate induced disasters on existing
programmes and activities, but adding the considerations of its vulnerability to existing programmes and
activities is very necessary if adaptation is to take place in a way that affects the population, poverty and
development. This means that people’s adaptive capacity and processes contributing to the vulnerability of the
population need to be targeted by adaptation measures. Unless these linkages are not considered, the
development of population cannot be addressed properly. In order to achieve a broader type of adaptation, the
focus should be on vulnerability reduction, which includes the social, political and environmental conditions
that make people vulnerable to climate change (Ray-Bennett, 2009). So the best way to address climate change
impacts and vulnerability of the population is by integrating adaptation measures into sustainable development
and poverty reduction strategies.
Various coping mechanisms and adaptive strategies have to be adopted by the people in the Odisha to reduce the
impact of climate change and climate-induced disasters. More importantly, different individual measures and
community based action strategies should be given priority. The coping mechanisms can be visualized as a
network to maximize utility and strengthen of resources from infrastructures, transportation, health facilities and
medicines to food, livestock keeping and agriculture. The adopted strategies and coping mechanisms depended
on people’s perception on extreme events, the problem associated with it and geographical location. The
problems included crop failure, concomitant decline in income and employment opportunities, jeopardize
infrastructures, low yields, escalation of food prices, hunger and malnutrition, decrease in grazing land and
fodder availability, and loss of properties and life. However, the coping mechanisms vary according to the
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nature of disasters or extreme events. Accordingly, the strategies practiced to reduce vulnerability are classified
into four groups, namely common strategies for any extreme events in general, specific strategies to reduce
drought, flood, and cyclone impacts.
IV. Way Forward and Future Policy Implications
It has been highlighted the adverse impacts of climate change and climate induced disasters are most striking in
the state of Odisha, because of its geographical and climatic conditions, their high dependence on natural
resources, their limited capacity to adapt to the changing climate and weak climate and disaster policy. Although
Odisha is one of the first state to have its draft on Climate Change Action Plan and Disaster Preparedness Action
Plan, however, its implementation at ground level still a far way and needs concrete action on this. Further, this
is a state, which is not only cursed by climate, but also out sided by the central government, funding agencies,
planners and policy makers. Over the years, after independence less importance has been given to the state as
well as the development strategies of the state have tended to overlook the climate change, health, poverty
related issues. Further, there is a scarcity of research which can focus on different climatic and climatic induced
calamity issues. Considering all the above points, there is an urgent need to focus on the climate change,
disasters and their vulnerability, and adaptation and coping mechanisms among the people in the state. So that
better solutions and developmental strategies can be emerged from the third world state. This study suggest for
some immediate action plan and future policy recommendations as follows:
Strong political willingness, engagement and leadership on priority for institutional arrangements for
Climate Change Action Plan and Disaster Preparedness Action Plan preparation; Ease administrative
coordination and interdepartmental planning, consultations and budgetary processes.
Addressing climate change and disasters are about interacting with complex systems, so broad stakeholder
engagement is required to maximise perspectives and increase robustness of analysis with public private
partnership (PPP) model approach.
An established plan can go beyond risk management to look at actions that address climate change and
deliver benefits for growth and development.
Using a detailed sector by sector approach, it is possible to search for adaptations and mitigation options
that offer substantial development benefits- e.g. health, energy security, energy efficiency, growth, jobs and
income generation at all levels (state, district, block and panchayat).
Strengthen the state infrastructures, transport systems, communications, health facilities and disaster
emergency services, so that in case of climate induced disasters, services can be provided without delay.
A key challenge is to tackle specific sub-national priority issues, whilst creating the appropriate enabling
environment for the implementation of national planning priorities at the state level.
Accelerating community resilience process with gender inclusion and partnership approach.
Incorporate community resilient plan, safety nets at panchayat level linking to governance and livelihoods.
To establish a dynamic platform for change management at the bottom with an evolving process to reduce
poverty and climate vulnerabilities.
Enable the community to access benefits of government and non-govt schemes, and social security to
improve quality of life and reduce marginalisation, distress migration linkage of families and welfare of
economic excludes.
Enable local communities to have economic and ecological gains through self-empowerment and
community mobilization process.
Acknowledge enhancement of social justice where livelihood security, food security and entitlement
benefits.
Government should provide better coping mechanism and strategies that will ensure and enlarge at local
level that enhance the people with dignity, safety-net for energy conservation and use of adaptive eco
restoration for vulnerability reduction to disaster, climatic changes and global warming.
Information gaps must be filled, but they need not prevent planning. There are major gaps in knowledge
and literature, and better mechanisms are needed to share current knowledge. Outreach activities and
investments should be encouraged research to improve the knowledge, program and policy on climate
change and disasters.
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