A study on the impact of natural hazard driven environmental change on the few selected coastal communities of Orissa, India

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Natural hazards are becoming one of the major environmental change drivers around the globe. There is a close correlation between the trends of increased demographic pressure especially in developing countries that escalates environmental degradation, increases human vulnerability and intensification of the impacts of disasters. Major objectives of the study is to document the coastline changes along the villages and identify the major drivers for such changes; to analyze the consequence of the environmental change on the community, livelihood, lifestyles and mobility and to suggest sustainable management plans for more disaster resilient communities. The study was conducted in the coastal communities of Satabhaya gram Panchayat in the state of Orissa, on the East coast of India. The communities were selected based on the immediate threat to the communities from flood; cyclone and saline surges. The research paper is based on the field work conducted in the communities in 3 successive

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