Developing vulnerability indices - the art of encapsuling the obvious -Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

Abstract

Climate change is accepted as a global reality beyond debate. It is expected to bring drastic changes
 in the natural cycles in the biosphere and human societies. Though the magnitude of the changes and their
 impacts in different parts of the globe are still discussed, the direction of changes is more or less understood
 as irreversible. While there is a high degree of uncertainty in the temporal and spatial manifestations of the
 impact of climate change, the rate of manifestation is perhaps getting quicker than expected. The inescapable
 calamities that climate change can bring are identified as major global threat to humanity. The world
 community has rightly started appreciating measures for remediation of climate change impacts as a mission
 towards world peace.