- Title
- Climate risk management in Tamil Nadu, India
- Abstract
- "In terms of socio economic indices, Tamil Nadu ranks third among Indian states. Tamil Nadu is one of the most industrialized and urbanized States in India. Tamil Nadu draws 88 percent of its annual income (2011) from industry and service sectors. Tamil Nadu, despite its impressive development in the last three decades resulting in structural transformation of its economy from agriculture to industry and services based, and declining share of the state income from agriculture sector (40 percent in 1960s to 12 percent in 2011), has 40 percent of its population depending on agriculture sector. As 35 million rural population depends on farming sector for livelihoods, growth of agriculture sector is key to poverty reduction, food security and social wellbeing. The current strategy in Tamil Nadu, climate risk management framework is yet to be institutionalized as a cross-sectoral anticipatory risk management strategy to minimize the expected climate risk into the development strategies envisaged in 2023 document. Natural hazard reduction in Tamil Nadu is being implemented in three distinct domains, namely Disaster Risk Reduction, Development Planning and Climate Change Adaptation in isolation. There is a need to integrate these three distinct domains into an inter-connected Climate Risk Management (CRM) framework. Climate Risk Management framework enables promotion of a cross sectoral anticipatory risk management practice to mitigate both current and future climate risks to development."
- Publication Date
- Jan. 1, 2013, 6 p.m.
- Category
- Climatology Meteorology Atmosphere
- processes and phenomena of the atmosphere. Examples: cloud cover, weather, climate, atmospheric conditions, climate change, precipitation
- Regions
- India
- Approved
- No
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- DOI
- None
- Attribution
- None
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Identification Image
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- Spatial Extent
- ---
- Projection System
- EPSG:4326
- Extension x0
- None
- Extension x1
- None
- Extension y0
- None
- Extension y1
- None
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
- coastal_flood, strong_wind, drought, urban_flood, extreme_heat, wildfire, landslide
- Name
- Stu Fraser (stu)
- sfraser@worldbank.org
- Position
- Senior Disaster RIsk Management Specialist
- Organization
- World Bank
- Location
- Voice
- Fax
- Link Online
- /documents/836
- Metadata Page
- /documents/836/metadata_detail
- Online Link
- /documents/836/download
- Name
- Andy (andy)
- Position
- Organization
- Location
- Voice
- Fax