✅Case Study - Odisha ICZM

Question 1

What is an ICZM?

Answer 1

A continuous and iterative process designed to promote sustainable management of coastal zones

Question 2

What objectives do ICZMs bring together?

Answer 2

A means to accept and bring together different objectives for coastal areas in such an order that multiple social, economic, cultural and environmental goals can be achieved

Question 3

Why did an ICZM work in Odisha?

Answer 3

Becausee a large area needed protection

Question 4

Where is Odisha?

Answer 4

The East coast of India

Question 5

Why is sustainability so important for Odisha?

Answer 5

India is a developing country where carrying out work in an economical way to reach as many goals as possible is more sustainable

Question 6

Why are the local community stakeholders?

Answer 6

The live and work in the area, so any decisions made higher up will likely affect them and their livelihoods

Question 7

Why are ecologists and wildlife specialists stakeholders?

Answer 7

Wildlife and the environment may be damaged so care must be taken to ensure that as little damage as possible is done

Question 8

Why are local government officials stakeholders?

Answer 8

The ICZM will be carried out on state owned land, and could be partially or entirely funded by the government

Question 9

Why is the Odisha Tourism Development Corporation a stakeholder?

Answer 9

Tourism is a crucial industry in the area so any negative impact would have huge social and economic repurcussions

Question 10

Why is the Odisha State Pollution Control Board a stakeholder?

Answer 10

The pollution board was consulted so that any pollution caused by the ICZM could be controlled to reduce pollution in the air and water

Question 11

Why were the fishing community stakeholders?

Answer 11

Many people rely on the sea for their source of income, so fishing communities were consulted on the effects the ICZM may have on their business

Question 12

What area of mangroves was planted in Odisha?

Answer 12

1435km2

Question 13

Which organisations were involved?

Answer 13

State government
World Bank
Ministry of environment, forest and climate change

Question 14

Why were mangroves necessary?

Answer 14

Mangroves provide habitats for endangered species such as the Olive Ridley turtle, as well as protecting the coast from erosion

Question 15

When was the ICZM pilot project?

Answer 15

2010 - 2015

Question 16

What are the benefits of planting mangroves?

Answer 16

Wind and swell waves reduced
Flooding impacts of storm surges reduced
Tsunami heights reduced
Roots bind and build soils
Cheap to plant

Question 17

What is resilience?

Answer 17

The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties

Question 18

What is adaption?

Answer 18

The process of change by which something becomes better suited to its environment

Question 19

What is mitigation?

Answer 19

Reducing the severity of something

Question 20

What are the landforms around Odisha like?

Answer 20

Many recent depositional landforms

Question 21

What is the coastline made up of?

Answer 21

6 deltas, ‘hexadeltic region’

Question 22

What is the Chilika lake like?

Answer 22

A salty lagoon, renowned for birdlife but less saline in monsoon season when diluted by rainfall

Question 23

Where does the sediment around Odisha come from?

Answer 23

The six deltas, sediment is fluvial

Question 24

How much of Odisha’s coastline is dynamic?

Answer 24

85.6%

Question 25

Why is adaption and mitigation needed in Odisha?

Answer 25

It is frequently hit by tropical storms, cyclones

Question 26

When was cyclone Phailin?

Answer 26

October 2013

Question 27

How does Odisha show resilience?

Answer 27

Because people still live there despite the cyclones and threat of coastal changes and erosion.

Question 28

How has the state adapted to the threats it faces?

Answer 28

It provides supplies ahead of any storms and staged evacuations are done every so often to mimic real evacuations. Warnings are broadcast of any incoming storms