GUWAHATI, Dec 8 – A recent study on climate change adaptation in Assam, produced by conservation group Aaranyak, would be formally released on December 11 at Copenhagen to coincide with the ongoing UN Climate conference.
The study ‘Assessing local adaptation strategies to climate induced water stress and hazards in the greater Himalayan region: A case study in the Eastern Assam flood plains of the Brahmaputra basin in India’, was produced for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal with technical collaboration of ICIMOD.
An Aaranyak release said the study was carried out between July 2008 and September 2009 in five highly hazard-prone villages of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts of Assam.
The reports have been published by ICIMOD in two formats, a synthesis report entitled ‘Local responses to too much and too little water in the greater Himalayan region’ and a full report called ‘Adjusting to floods on the Brahmaputra plains, Assam, India’ which can be accessed in the ICIMOD website.
