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Adaptation attitudes of the forest villagers implies their responses towards resilience building to cope with the changing climatic conditions in Bengal Duars. This chapter intends to identify the interlinkages between people’s concern or belief regarding adaptation and the impact of livelihood assets on their adaptation attitudes. Determination of the influencing factors and the processes responsible towards adaptation are also important issues to give emphasis in this study.
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Sam, K., Chakma, N. (2021). Adaptation Attitudes of the Forest Villagers. In: Climate Change in the Forest of Bengal Duars. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73866-2_7
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