Building Climate Change Adaptation Scenarios with Stakeholders for Water Management: A Hybrid Approach Adapted to the South Indian Water Crisis

Sustainability

Mariem Baccar¹  Jacques-Eric Bergez¹  Delphine Leenhardt¹  Laurent Ruiz²  Muddu Sekhar²  Stephane Couture³ 

[1] AGIR, INRAE, Université de Toulouse, F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France;Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India;MIAT, INRAE, F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France;

关键词: participatory approach;    farming system sustainability;    natural resource management;    management policy;    groundwater overexploitation;    tropics;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su13158459

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Climate change threatens the sustainability of agriculture and natural resources. Adaptive solutions must be designed locally with stakeholders. We developed the Approach for Building Adaptation Scenarios with Stakeholders (ABASS), which aims to identify adaptation policies and corresponding scenarios of natural resource management in the context of climate change. Its originality is the combination of different existing participatory methods, organized in three phases. In step 1, experts identify local environmental problems on a map and build the assumption tree of local climate change effects. In step 2, experts identify stakeholders. Step 3 leads to the construction of adaptation scenarios with stakeholders in two phases. First, in a participatory workshop gathering numerous stakeholders, the assumption tree is presented to help stakeholders identify potential policies that address the effects of climate change. Then, using the map produced in step 1, each group of stakeholders separately translates each potential policy into a detailed scenario. We applied ABASS to the context of groundwater overexploitation in South India. Two policies at the farm level emerged as consensual: (i) ponds to harvest runoff water and (ii) drip irrigation to conserve water; but their implementation highlights the differences of opinion among stakeholders.

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