Households’ Perception and Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Change: Nomads in Fars Province

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Professor of Shiraz University

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The current study examined households’ perception and evaluated livelihood vulnerability to climate change of nomads in Fars provience. Using a multiple stage cluster sampling, a total of 393 nomadic households was selected from the clans of Amale, Farsimadan, Kashkooli Bozorg and Kashkooli Koochak and the initial information was obtained through a verbal interview by the structured questionnaires. This paper contains two parts. In the first section, households’ perception was examined to climate change and in the second part, livelihood vulnerability indices were assessed to climate change. The result indicates that households in the study have an adequate understanding of climate change. According to the results, Amale and Farsimadan clans that are more exposed to climate change have a high adaptive capacity, but against clans of Kashkooli Bozorg and Kashkooli Koochak that are less exposed to climate change, have a livelihood based on traditional livestock and a low adaptive capacity to conditions. Also, the nomadic households of Farsimadan due to their high degradation of rangelands have the highest livelihood vulnerability index (5.32) and nomads of Amale clan duo to their high adaptability to climate change have the least livelihood vulnerability index to climat change (4.44).

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