Biodiversity of Mangalajodi Wetlands and Socio-Economic Status of People Living Around: Challenges and Opportunities

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Biodiversity; Chilika Lake; Livelihood; Stakeholders; Wetland

Abstract

The pace of biodiversity degradation of Mangalajodi wetland in Odisha has been very high and has a direct impact on the local livelihoods. A large part of the people living around depend on the wetland and nearby Chilika Lake for their food and other requirements. However, the nature and extent of the relationship between the wetland and local livelihoods has been changing and a conflicting scenario between the wetland biodiversity and local livelihoods has been aroused. This paper attempts to address the following two objectives: to assess the socio-economic conditions of the households living around the wetland and its linkage with the state of biodiversity, and to ascertain the consequences of biodiversity loss on the livelihoods of local people. The paper relied on both secondary and primary data to accomplish its objectives. A mix of quantitative and qualitative designs was adopted for the study. The primary data was collected from different stakeholders including 320 sample households of Mangalajodi gram panchayat. The sample was drawn based on simple random sampling. It is found that there is a significant positive correlation between the status of biodiversity and the state of livelihood condition of the local households. However, the discharge of chemical affluence into the nearby waterbodies, the practice of extensive synthetic fertilizer-based agriculture, over-exploitation of mangroves, and commercial aquaculture in adjacent areas accelerate the loss of biodiversity and put pressure on local livelihoods. Finally, the changes and the possible opportunities are discussed in this paper.

Copyright

© 2024 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Abdulkarem Daoun
AU  - Damodar Jena
AU  - Padmalochan Rout
AU  - Vivek Vishal Giri
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/06/13
TI  - Biodiversity of Mangalajodi Wetlands and Socio-Economic Status of People Living Around: Challenges and Opportunities
BT  - Proceedings of the NDIEAS-2024 International Symposium on New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Anthropology-2024 (NDIEAS 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 85
EP  - 99
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_8
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_8
ID  - Daoun2024
ER  -