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Local knowledge and ideas are key to action on climate disruption

27/09 2019
Photo: Sami A.Khan (WorldFish via Flickr).

Vulnerable coastal areas of South Asia face a ‘perfect storm’ of increasing climate uncertainties combined with threats to livelihoods from inequality, industrial development and marginalization, according to an international team of researchers working with local partners in India and Bangladesh.

But the region can adapt to climate change more effectively if it recognises the ideas and knowledge of local people on the ‘front line’ of change, say the researchers from the TAPESTRY (‘Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments’) project, which works in Kutch, Mumbai and the Sundarbans delta….

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