Contents 1. 1.Background of Study 12 Climate Change in an Indian Context 13 Case studies 14 1.2.1 LAMG : 14 1.2.2 Maharashtra DAPCC : 15 2. Introduction 16 2.1 Aim 17 2.2 Objectives 17 2.3 Research Questions 18 2.4 Scope 18 2.5 Limitations 19 2.6 Conceptual Framework and Overall Methodology of the Study 20 3. Overview of the district 21 3.1 Physiography 21 3.2 Socio- Demography 25 3.3 Climate Variability and Projections 27 4. Vulnerability of Udupi district 29 4.1 Basic definitions in our context 29 4.1.1 Vulnerability 29 4.1.2 Exposure 29 4.1.3 Sensitivity 30 4.1.4 Adaptive capacity 30 4.2 Vulnerability Indexing 31 4.3 Infrastructure Vulnerability 32 4.4 Social Vulnerability 37 4.4.1 Primary sector Vulnerability 37 4.4.2 Minority and Juvenile Population 37 4.4.3 Livelihood concerns due to climate change 38 4.4.4 Disparities in Communities 38 4.5 Environmental Vulnerability Index 41 4.5.1 Forest cover 41 4.5.2 CRZ villages under risk 41 4.5.3 Previously flooded villages 42 4.5.4 Coastal shore degradation 42 4.6 Composite Vulnerability 47 4.7 Selection of Villages 48 Coastal : 48 Plains : 48 Ghats: 48 5. Strategies for future development in case villages 49 5.1 Chakra Hollur River Estuary 50 5.2 Plains : Halady villages 52 5.3 Ghats : Idu Village 54 6. Conclusions 56 7. Bibliography 57