Perception towards Influence of Climate Change on Human Health and Environment

Climate change has a number of immediate and long-term impacts. The threat of climate change at present increases from various interactions between environments, economic, social, religious and political systems. The living of the society can be badly affected directly or indirectly due to the climatic changes. Climate change causes storms and other form of extreme weather which effect agricultural production as well as human health. In this paper, a well-designed questionnaire was used to collect the information from a sample of 400 people selected randomly to get the Participants’ perception at small scale. The main aim of this paper was to understand the people's perception of climate change and influence of climate change on human health and the environment in Central Kashmir of J&K State. The results of present study revealed from people's perception that increase in temperature, unpredictable storms has direct influence on human health and the environment. Climate change and health were significantly related to each other. Majority of the respondents under study were aware of the climate change and its impacts on health and environment. However, the respondents were not aware of the technologies to be adopted under climate change scenario. The socio-economic profile had significant effect on people's awareness regarding health have to be modified to handle with climate change impact.