Adaptation to Critical Stress Moments in Livelihood: A Case Study at Downstream Teesta River Basin of India

Critical stress moments may be treated as those moments when peoples, local communities, their socio-economic parameters i.e. livelihood options are very much vulnerable to climate related risks and hazardous conditions. This paper examines some climate related risks and hazards that sustain as critical moments experienced by local livelihood in the downstream of Teesta river basin in India. Here Critical stress moments are act as drivers to the livelihood sustainability, community perceptions of the environment and adaptation practices. Therefore, the present paper takes an attempt to determine different potential adaptation practices to critical stress moments in agriculture and non-agricultural livelihoods sustain over the study sites through proper investigation of the climate induced factors responsible for the hazards.