-Upasna Acharya   Climate Change is a big challenge to the global environment and the economy. Nepal has identified climate change as a crosscutting issue by virtue of its nature and impacts. Despite nominal greenhouse gas emission of about 0.025 percent (GoN, 2010), Nepal is listed as a country at extreme risk to the impacts
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-Aastha Poudel   The melting of glaciers, glacier outbursts, declining monsoon, increasing incidence of floods, and flash rains are making headlines across the world. But at Dadigurashee, the villagers relate the increasing change in weather pattern is due to deforestation.   The community members expressed, “earlier there were plenty of forests, with the increasing population,
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Sumit Vij   “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it” – Winston Churchill Continuing from the last blog entry, Living with Climate Change (LCC) Project at IRRAD has made progress in terms of site selection. I visited the Bundelkhand region in Central India in mid August 2013. Bundelkhand, a semi-arid geographical
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Sumit Vij This blog series is a part of assorted writings for a two-year research project titled “Living with Climate Change” (LCC) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada. Following is the first blog in the series. It briefly outlines the research project, the challenges in conceptualizing the research study and the
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