Climate change impacts in drought and flood affected areas: case studies in India

This report promotes the mainstreaming and integration of climate risk adaptation into India's development policies and processes, where appropriate. It focuses on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impacts.

The approach was dictated by government priorities, which indicated the need to: (a) assess climate risks to agriculture and livelihoods in areas facing elevated and increasing exposure to droughts and floods; (b) generate better information on current coping and climate risk management strategies in response to droughts and floods; (c) develop and demonstrate the use of a climate modelling framework that can be used to identify future climate risks; and (d) use the information to assist in developing the key elements of a forward looking adaptation plan that can help improve climate resilience and adaptive capacity.