Namala Satya Kishan Kumar and Nalini Bikkina
Abstract
The escalating global warming of the planet is aggravating the consequences of climate change particularly among the marginalized sections of the population dwelling in poverty. The drawing of climate change adaptation policies often subverts locally immersed practitionersââ¬â¢ perspectives. While there is some research on indigenous communitiesââ¬â¢ capabilities to make adjustments to climate change, such literature is scant ly available in mainstream science. The gaps are discernible with specific reference to acknowledging the social element in the context of adaptation and in precluding knowledge beyond academic parameters from the debate. The proposed research intends to draw from the stories documented by Peopleââ¬â¢s Archive of Rural India (PARI), from the point of view of Risbey et al. (1999) stages of public adaptation. As this study will deal with revelatory, non-statistical realities, a qualitative method will be used to render social robustness. The initial tier of research involves a thematic analysis of four climate change narratives documented by PARI using the method of constant comparisons. For the purpose of this conference we intend to present the findings from the analysis of the fisher folk stories from PARI. Analysis will be done using Open and Axial Coding methods to derive themes from these climate change concerns and adaptation practices, to inform our interview protocol in the second tier of the proposed research at a later time.