Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 12/2009

Climate Change, Poverty and Environmental Crisis in the Disaster Prone Areas of Pakistan

Zehar Abbass

November 2009

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

This study was commissioned to review the impact of climate change on Pakistan’s rural disaster-prone communities in Badin (Sindh), Rajanpur (Punjab), and Khuzdar (Balochistan). The study's aim was to review community perceptions of the impact of climate change and recommend coping mechanisms for affected communities. The findings will support different organisations and institutions to initiate adaptation programmes. This report has helped Oxfam GB to initiate an adaptation programme in the coastal communities of Pakistan.