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Building climate change adaptation scenarios with stakeholders for water management: A hybrid approach adapted to the south indian water crisis

Baccar, M and Bergez, J-E and Couture, S and Sekhar, M and Ruiz, L and Leenhardt, D (2021) Building climate change adaptation scenarios with stakeholders for water management: A hybrid approach adapted to the south indian water crisis. In: Sustainability (Switzerland), 13 (15).

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158459

Abstract

Climate change threatens the sustainability of agriculture and natural resources. Adaptive solutions must be designed locally with stakeholders. We developed the Approach for Building Adaptation Scenarios with Stakeholders (ABASS), which aims to identify adaptation policies and corresponding scenarios of natural resource management in the context of climate change. Its originality is the combination of different existing participatory methods, organized in three phases. In step 1, experts identify local environmental problems on a map and build the assumption tree of local climate change effects. In step 2, experts identify stakeholders. Step 3 leads to the construction of adaptation scenarios with stakeholders in two phases. First, in a participatory workshop gathering numerous stakeholders, the assumption tree is presented to help stakeholders identify potential policies that address the effects of climate change. Then, using the map produced in step 1, each group of stakeholders separately translates each potential policy into a detailed scenario. We applied ABASS to the context of groundwater overexploitation in South India. Two policies at the farm level emerged as consensual: (i) ponds to harvest runoff water and (ii) drip irrigation to conserve water; but their implementation highlights the differences of opinion among stakeholders. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Sustainability (Switzerland)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to Authors
Keywords: adaptive management; climate change; crisis management; expert system; natural resource; participatory approach; policy making; resource management; scenario analysis; stakeholder; sustainability; water management, India
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited: 20 Nov 2021 11:29
Last Modified: 20 Nov 2021 11:29
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/69836

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