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Factor influencing fishery-based farmers’ perception and their response to climate-induced crisis management.

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Time and again, climate change is a global phenomenon; intrinsically affects people and the environment more at the local and the global level when driven anthropogenically. Due to multiple reasons, the coastal region is more vulnerable to ongoing and forthcoming climate change. The study was conducted to develop a framework and to discuss the perception of fishery-based farmers and their response to the climate-induced crisis through their management practices. It is well known that preventing climate change is costly; alternatively, measures can be initiated to mitigate its adverse effects on humans as well as on the ecosystem. The importance of utilizing the internal physical, social, and psychological aspects of a farming community to deal with crisis management efficiently has been unearthed in this study. It is understood that climate-induced crisis management is contributed by psycho-socio-economic factors associated with the farmer and his environment. The computing effects of these exogenous variables may lead to the emergence of hybrid, moribund, socio-economic structures, which may increase the tendency of farmers for vulnerability to climate change. Analysis of these variables affecting crisis management will help to identify and undertake practical approaches to alter the favourable and manipulable variables connected with crisis management. The results are more relevant for farmers, extension professionals, governmental agencies, Non-Government Organizations, and scientists who play a definite role in the management of crisis-induced by climate change.

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Acknowledgement

We want to thank the farmers, agriculture, horticulture, and fishery department, and local officers of the research area for their support during the data collection and fieldwork. We are also thankful to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, for providing the favourable environment for data analysis and writing this manuscript.

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The authors thankful to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) for funding the study.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, 388110, India

    Vinaya Kumar Hebbsale Mallappa & M. Shivamurthy

  2. Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560065, India

    Vinaya Kumar Hebbsale Mallappa & M. Shivamurthy

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The principal author (VK) conceptualized the idea, define the methodology, designed data collection personal interview instruments, carried out the primary data collection and analysed the collected data, and wrote the manuscript. The second author (SM) participated in the research design, standardize the data collection procedure, technical guidance in the data analysis through the appropriate statistical procedure, and proof of the draft manuscript.

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Hebbsale Mallappa, V.K., Shivamurthy, M. Factor influencing fishery-based farmers’ perception and their response to climate-induced crisis management.. Environ Dev Sustain 23, 11766–11791 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-01141-x

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