TRACING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

摘要

Remotely sensed data from satellite observation are used in drought monitoring such as DMEWS system developed at the University of Tokyo. The system provides monthly and annual drought information for the Greater Mekong Subregion. Once the internet is available, the information could download. Though it is free of charge, the knowledge to utilize the information is limited to local people especially poor farmers in the region. Therefore, the satellite based generated data should be verified with local knowledge to become usable information for the local people making knowledge sharing of these available resources. The farming is depending on the climate of the cropping season in the rural area. For example, the paddy farming start of preparation of the land at the beginning of the rainy season, then sowing and harvesting processes are followed by cropping timing. Once the farmer misses one of required factors such as rainfall or soil temperature or moisture, the crop production will be failed. Consequently, the next crop fanning timing also affected in the double cropping area. The fall of crop production decrease the income and it lead the poor people to migrate to urban area to find other opportunities to get a better income. A survey learned that the local farmers from rural area are migrating to urban when they faced economic difficult by failing of fanning benefits. In this study, we will trace the relationship between the drought information, climate change impact and socioeconomic. Rural and urban interaction will be discussed.