• Pragyanmita Nayak
• Dr. (Mrs) Sujata Mishra

Climate change has become a menace for human being. It is affecting the basic elements of life – access to water, food, health and use of land, and the basic environment. In developing country like India and her states, climate change is an additional burden because ecological and socio-economic systems are already facing pressures from intensive industrialisation, urbanisation and population explosion. India has variegation of natural coastal ecosystems. The study area i.e. Rajnagar block, Kendrapara district, Odisha has 480 km. of coastal stretch situated in the east coast of India, which is most vulnerable due to climate change. Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. The main objective of the study is to measure the relative vulnerability of the region or community based on the premise that human vulnerability is a function of physical characteristics of climate events. The indicators are like Sea Level Rise, Coastal Water Temperature, tidal shift, salt water intrusion, drowning of low-lying areas and affect coastal habitats.The climate change is associated with the vulnerabilities of human system arising from climate variability. The study envisages analyzing the impact of climate change on socio economic development of local people. The results show that climatic variation impacts the livelihood systems of rural communities through its interaction with local natural environmental resources and other socio-economic characteristics of the communities. There is a significant change in rural livelihood system of marine fisher folk, farmers, and local inhabitants which affects the socio-ecological status. The study overview the gaps and challenges for mainstreaming climate change and coping strategies in the coastal zone with some suggestive planning structure.

Climate change, rural livelihood system, coastal zone, relative vulnerability

"IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LIVELIHOOD OPTIONS, CASE STUDY OF A COASTAL DISTRICT IN ODISHA, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.e353-e362, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205546.pdf

"IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LIVELIHOOD OPTIONS, CASE STUDY OF A COASTAL DISTRICT IN ODISHA, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppe353-e362, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205546.pdf