{"id":2191,"date":"2018-03-20T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2018-03-20T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T15:39:19","slug":"we-need-to-give-our-citizens-a-safe-place-to-stay-how-government-is-relocating-coastal-communities-affected-by-loss-of-land-in-the-mahanadi-delta-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/03\/20\/we-need-to-give-our-citizens-a-safe-place-to-stay-how-government-is-relocating-coastal-communities-affected-by-loss-of-land-in-the-mahanadi-delta-india\/","title":{"rendered":"“We need to give our citizens a safe place to stay” How government is relocating coastal communities affected by loss of land in the Mahanadi delta, India"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Sumana Banerjee, Sumanta Banerjee, Dr R N Samal and Dr Tuhin Ghosh<\/em><\/p>\n

Separated by thousands of miles but united by a common environmental fate, like the Pacific island nation of Kiribati which is facing the risk of being engulfed by rising seas, the Satavaya Gram Panchayat within India\u2019s Mahanadi Delta has lost eleven villages to the sea. Recognising the threats to their citizens, the state government of Odisha has taken a pioneering and “humanitarian approach” to relocation, providing new homes and ensuring that appropriate livelihood support is available in the places where displaced communities are resettled.\u00a0 Read more in a new photostory.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Encroaching sands threaten houses in Satavaya Gram Panchayat<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Sumana Banerjee, Sumanta Banerjee, Dr R N Samal and Dr Tuhin Ghosh Separated by thousands of miles but united by a common environmental fate, like the Pacific island nation of Kiribati which is facing the risk of being engulfed by rising seas, the Satavaya Gram Panchayat within India\u2019s Mahanadi Delta has lost eleven villages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,5,35,4],"tags":[68,77,56,66,84,86,85],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-from-the-countries","category-gbm-india","category-india","tag-delta","tag-india","tag-mahanadi","tag-migration","tag-odisha","tag-relocation","tag-resettlement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-zl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2407,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/08\/13\/story-of-change-deccmas-inputs-to-the-odisha-state-action-plan-on-climate-change-2018-23\/","url_meta":{"origin":2191,"position":0},"title":"Story of change-DECCMA’s inputs to the Odisha State Action Plan on Climate Change 2018-23","author":"katharinevincent","date":"13th August 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"DECCMA is committed to providing policy support to create the conditions for sustainable, gender-sensitive adaptation in deltas. 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