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Not AvailableVulnerability to climate change among the alpine transhumance pastoralists of Western Arunachal Pradesh, India: A household level assessment.Not Availabl
Adapting to climate change: Traditional coping mechanism followed by the <i>Brokpa </i>pastoral nomads of Arunachal Pradesh, India
752-761Transhumance system of livelihood of the Brokpa
pastoral nomads inhabiting in the yak tracts of Arunachal Pradesh with special
emphasis on climate change adaptation was assessed in the present study. A
representative sample of the 240 Brokpa pastoral nomads from all the yak
rearing tracts of Arunachal Pradesh was selected randomly. The Brokpa
pastoral nomads mainly depend upon livestock, like yak, yak-cattle hybrid etc,
rearing for their livelihood. They perceived that season cycle has been changed
in lower and mid altitude. They also perceived that onset of summer is getting
started 1-2 month(s) earlier than before and also extended by 2-3 months.
Therefore, Brokpa pastoral nomads of Arunachal Pradesh have expanded
their migration duration by 2-3 months in searching of congenial environment
for their livestock specially yak and yak-cattle hybrid. They adopted 10 coping
mechanisms to cope up with negative impact of climate change. Among the coping
mechanisms, ‘duration of migration has expanded by 2-3 months’ and ‘change in
pasture utilization practice’ were found to be mostly adopted