Climate Change Local Adaptation Pathways (CLAPs)

Start Year

01/01/2024

End Year

31/12/2027


overview

This project is examining how climate change is shaping India’s rural–urban transition, including its effects on both migration and immobility across locations and socio-economic groups. It is responding to a recognised knowledge gap on how to design policies, programmes, and projects that account for the interlinkages between socio-economic, cultural, and climate drivers of migration. Working with research and action partners, the project is developing a set of metrics and methods to better understand and enable migration as a form of adaptation. It is analysing a range of responses to climate change—from planned relocation to immobility—across source and destination contexts in Karnataka, Kerala, and Odisha, in order to frame how migration functions as an adaptive strategy.


PROJECT Team
Chandni Singh, Amir Bashir Bazaz (Lead), Prathijna Poonacha Kodira, Nihal Ranjit, Aditi Apparaju, Shilpa Shirish, Sofia Juliet Rajan, Divyanshi Vyas, Lata Biswal, Ketaki Ghoge, Yashita Singh

Themes

School, Programme & Lab
SCHOOL(S)
  • School of Environment & Sustainability
PROGRAMME(S)
  • Design, Building & Livelihoods
  • Practice
  • Research
LAB(S)
  • GSL
  • ML
  • UIL
  • WL

DONORS & CLIENTS

University of Exeter, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).


Partners

Consortium & Research Partners

Gram Vikas, Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development (CMID), University of East Anglia

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Locations

Publications

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