Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 2

Public Perception and Adaptation to Hydro Climatic Disasters in an Island of Cochin Estuary, South West India

  • Author:
  • Karunakaran Akhildev1,, Sreenu Suku2, Joice K. Joseph3, Mahesh Mohan4, A.P. Pradeepkumar5
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 190 to 198

1School of Environment Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

2School of Environment Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, sreenues111@gmail.com

3M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Kuttanad Centre, Changanasserry, joicejosephk@gmail.com

4School of Environment Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India

5Department of Geology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, geo.pradeep@gmail.com

*Corresponding author email id: karunakhildev@gmail.com

Online published on 17 February, 2020.

Abstract

Public perception is an indicator to know how people adapt to hydro climatic disasters (HCD). This study focuses on public perception towards HCD and its impacts. Local people were interviewed using informal and unstructured questions. Theoretical assumptions were set for the assessment. It helped to understand the adaptation practiced towards the severity posed from HCD of the densely populated Vypin island region within the urban agglomerate of the city of Cochin in Kerala, India.

Keywords

Public perception, Adaptation strategies, Climate change, Cochin