Climate Change
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 8

Community education on climate change adaptation: A biproduct of integrated water resources management, in Durlung Basin Nepal

  • Author:
  • Sabita Aryal Khanna, Rijan Bhakta Kayastha
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 551 to 556

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, P. O. Box 6250, KTM, Nepal. sabita@ku.edu.np

Online published on 20 May, 2017.

Abstract

The impacts of climate change on the water cycle are believed to have considerable consequences. Involvement of local government school on measurement of climatic variable such as temperature, humidity, rainfall, river water level etc. and publishing this information on public board has been able to proof a step to build capability on climate Change Adaptation. This process has boost the people's consciousness about the change of water resource availability as well as change in climatic parameter which gets related to water, agriculture, forest, trading and many more resources on which their livelihood is dependent on.

Keywords

Climate Change Adaptation, Integrated Water Resource Management, Community Partnership, School Involvement, Developing country