Eco Based Adaption Management

21^st Century has witnessed impacts of Climate Change in many sectors. Having healthy ecosystems play a significant role in providing services to adjust to climate change. Communities have always sought to protect themselves and their valued assets from natural pressures and reduce their vulnerabilities. Recently, increasing interest is being directed towards adaptation approaches that use ecosystem services to build socio-ecological resilience for extreme climatic events.

Ecosystem Based Adaptation Management (EBAM) use various approaches for the sustainable management, conservation, and restoration of ecosystems so as to provide services that empower people to adapt to the impacts of climate change. EBAM has spearheaded initiatives that assess vulnerability, capacity building, and policy measures that have economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits that safeguards livelihood sustenance and food security, conservation of has biodiversity, sustainable water management, and disaster risk reduction, among other benefits.