Socio-economic assessment of farmers' vulnerability as water users subject to global change stressors in the hard rock of Southern India. The SHIVA ANR project

Stéphanie Aulong, Frederic Borne (), Y Caballero, B Chaudhuri, F. Dazin, Benoît Dewandel (), Luis Dinis, S. Galab, J. Guerrin (), Himanshu Himanshu, Bernard Ladouche (), Eric Maire (), J.C. Maréchal, Gowrappan Muthusankar (), J Perrin, P. Prudhvikar Reddy, B.R. Ramesh, Christophe Sannier, M. Sekhar, A. Shakeel and Nicolas Vigaud ()
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Stéphanie Aulong: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
Frederic Borne: IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Y Caballero: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
B Chaudhuri: CSH - Centre de sciences humaines de New Delhi - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
F. Dazin: SIRS - Systèmes d'Information à Référence Spatiale - Systèmes d'Information à Référence Spatiale
Benoît Dewandel: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
Luis Dinis: Indo-French Groundwater Research Unit
S. Galab: Center of Economic and Social Sciences (CESS)
J. Guerrin: Indo-French Groundwater Research Unit
Bernard Ladouche: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
Eric Maire: GEODE - Géographie de l'environnement - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Indo-French Water Sciences Unit ( IFCWS)
J.C. Maréchal: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Indo-French Water Sciences Unit ( IFCWS)
Gowrappan Muthusankar: IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
J Perrin: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Indo-French Groundwater Research Unit
P. Prudhvikar Reddy: Center of Economic and Social Sciences (CESS)
B.R. Ramesh: IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christophe Sannier: Systèmes d'Information à Référence Spatiale
M. Sekhar: Indo-French Water Sciences Unit ( IFCWS), IISc - Indian Institute of Science
A. Shakeel: Indo-French Groundwater Research Unit, National Geophysical Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) - National Geophysical Research Institute
Nicolas Vigaud: BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières

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Abstract: Demand for vulnerability assessments is growing in policy-making circles, to support the choice of appropriate measures and policies to reduce the vulnerability of water users and resources. Through the SHIVA ANR project, we are seeking a method to assess and map the vulnerability of farmers in southern India to both climate and socioeconomic changes, and secondly, to assess the costs and benefits associated with trends in farmers' vulnerability in the medium and long term. The project is focusing on southern India's hard rock area, as in this geological context, both surface and ground water resources are naturally limited. We are also focusing on farming populations as these are the main water users in the area and rely exclusively on groundwater. The area covers southern India's semi-arid zone, where the rainfall gradient ranges from 600 mm to 1100 mm. Vulnerability is expected to vary according to local climatic conditions but also the socioeconomic characteristics of farming households. The SHIVA research team has been divided into six thematic groups in order to address the different scientific issues: downscaling the regional climate scenario, farm area projections, vulnerability assessments and quantification, vulnerability mapping, hydrological modelling and upscaling, and vulnerability impact assessments. Our approach is multidisciplinary to cater for the numerous inherent themes, and integrated to cater for vulnerability as a dynamic and multidimensional concept. The project's first results after 10 months of research are presented below.

Keywords: Agriculture; GIS; Global change; hard rock aquifers; India; Multicriteria decision analysis; Vulnerability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02-03
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Published in LandMod 2010: International Conference on Integrative Landscape Modelling, Feb 2010, Montpellier, France

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