Successful Community-Based Adaption in India

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of Successful Community-Based Adaptation in India. It tries to highlight how low-cost, democratic and need based adaptation strategies have been successful in India. The primacy of local-level adaptation strategies are stressed as the basis of effective community-based adaptation. This issue depicts the best practices in community-based adaptation that range from Watershed Organization Trust's (WOTR) efforts to upscale adaptation in India to the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit's (GIZ) experience in integrating climate change adaptation in sectoral policy formulation and from the instances of successful community-based adaptations in Odisha to the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in facilitating effective community-based adaptation.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ' Successful Community-Based Adaption in India’ for All' contents includes: (i) Up Scaling Local Adaptations in India: What Works!; (ii) From Pebbles in a Small Pond, to Ripples of Change: Scaling up Adaptation in Rural India; (iii) Use of GIS in Community Based Adaptation; (iv) Community Adaptation to Flood: Kalana, Odisha; (v) Community Mobilisation and Disaster Recovery: A Case Study from South Odisha; and (vi) Community-based Adaptation in a Changing Climate.