Supplementary Table 2. Local perceptions of risk of climate change

Issue / Initial coding / Focused coding
Increase in summer temperature /
  • People, especially children and elderly become sick due to intense heat in summers; diarrhoea, dysentery, fever become epidemic in warm weather; poultry and cattle production affected by hot summer weather.
  • Shrimp dies/growth retarded due to lack of oxygen in the pond resulting from rising temperature in shallow shrimp pond, disease outbreak/mortality of fish experiences when there is abnormally hotter weather/in the case of prolonged heat wave.
  • Elevated salinity levels experienced in shrimp ponds, rivers, canals and drinking water ponds during prolonged dry time or hotter summer.
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  • Public/animal health problem
  • Disease outbreak/mortality in shrimp farm
  • Increase in salinity due to high evaporation

Late onset of rainy season / Wait for monsoon rain to stock freshwater fish, wait for monsoon rain to decreases salinity levels in fish ponds to stock sweet water fish, cannot stock white fish (freshwater fish) due time /
  • Stoking of freshwater fish delayed

Decline in seasonal rainfall / Salinity varies seasonally, heavy rain dilutes salt, low rainfall increases salinity in soil and water, pond water remains undrinkable due to insufficient rainfall in rainy season /
  • Increase in salinity

Increase in cyclonic activities /
  • Injuries and loss of lives are common phenomenon associated with cyclones, human casualties have declined recently, no people killed in this locality during last cyclone
  • Lost standing crops and trees, fish pond flooded, fishstock escaped from ponds, storm water washed away livestock, experienced increasing loss of crop, fishstock, livestock and poultries due to increasing cyclonic activities,
  • Cyclone causes severe damage to road, bridges, culverts, schools, houses and other physical structures, people become homeless as strong wind wrecks the lightly built houses, communication disrupted due to damage to road network, breaching of coastal embankment
  • Storm water inundates ponds and contaminates drinking water sources, severe water scarcity arises due to contamination of drinking water sources, contamination is mostly caused by saline storm water and decomposing of debris.
  • Income earning activates ceased after occurrence of cyclones, less wealthy section of the community depends on external help to start their livelihoods, people migrate to other parts of the countries for jobs, by losing capitals people change their previous livelihoods, human losses severely affect income earning activities of a household
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  • Injuries and loss of lives
  • Loss of crop, fishstock, livestock and poultries
  • Damage to public and private infrastructure
  • Contamination of drinking water sources
  • Impacts on livelihood activities

High tide rising / With rising high water levels, salinity is steadily encroaching more land; crop land goes under water during high tide which was previously above high water level; rising high tide exposes raised land used for building houses to soil erosion /
  • Salt-line moves to inland
  • Land erosion