• Shivappa R. Handigund
• Dr.Chandrika K. B

The present study Effect of Flood on livelihoods Flood affected households in severely affected villages of karnataka and other state . Study revealed that floods caused huge loss to the cultivated land, farm inputs, crop yields, and stored grains, and livestock compared to a normal situation in the study area. To overcome these huge losses to society and to the individual households, Governments need to promote futuristic studies on climate variability and their specific impacts, take precautions measures in preventing the damages. In the post event, it is necessary to modify the norms for compensation to provide greater social security to the affected people. State and District level natural disaster management units should be strengthened with skilled manpower, advanced knowledge and logistic facilities to forecast accurately and handle eventualities. Inadequate sub-national level information is a significant lacuna for planning spatially targeted climate change adaptation investments. A fixed-effect panel regression analyses of 19 states from 2001 to 2015 assess the impacts of exposure to floods and droughts on the growth of gross state domestic product (GSDP) and human development index (HDI) in India. The flood and drought exposure are estimated using satellite data. The 19 states comprise 95% of the population and contribute 93% to the national GDP. The results show that floods indeed expose a large area, but droughts have the most significant impacts at the sub-national level. The most affected GSDPs are in the non-agriculture sectors, positively by the floods and negatively by droughts. No significant influence on human development may be due to substantial investment on mitigation of flood and drought impacts and their influence on better income, health, and education conditions. Because some Indian states still have a large geographical area, profiling disasters impacts at even smaller sub-national units such as districts can lead to effective targeted mitigation and adaptation activities, reduce shocks, and accelerate income growth and human development. Climate change is a serious global environmental concern, which has led to increasing frequency of extreme weather events evident around the globe. Unusually heavy rain fall, which is due to climate change, is a significant cause of floods. Flood is the most destructive natural disaster which extensively damages livelihood.

IndexTerms - floods; droughts; states; India, Floods, Livelihood, Livestock, livelihood; rural poor; climate change. Disaster, Flood, India, Preparedness.

"''Effect of Flood on Lives and Livelihoods A Comparative Study India and Karnataka''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no.e131-e141, May-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105554.pdf

"''Effect of Flood on Lives and Livelihoods A Comparative Study India and Karnataka''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 5, page no. ppe131-e141, May-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2105554.pdf