<p><p>&lt;p&gt;Environmental change is a global phenomenon causing uncertainties in people&amp;rsquo;s lives in natural resource dependent communities across the world by disrupting ways of living of people in areas which are prone to disasters. This paper aims to understand why people live with uncertainties, how people vulnerable to environmental stress and shock, suffering from poverty, livelihood instability and land degradation, recover and find resilience through strategies like shifting to alternative livelihood, changes in agricultural practices and even adopting migration. &amp;nbsp;By reviewing literature from scholars, it was understood how patterns of resilience are not static but always evolving according to the context and how both indigenous and scientific knowledge systems have their own benefits and if combined can be structured as effective mitigation strategies for people. The objective is to understand uncertainty from the local people&amp;rsquo;s perspectives, which will help decision and policy makers to create sustainable climate policies which will protect the vulnerable population. It will analyse diversification of livelihood strategies of different social categories, identify coping strategies and examine the responses and roles of the state and other political and non-governmental agencies in helping build resilience. The objective will be achieved by the study of a diverse set of livelihood systems situated in different ecological zones of West Bengal that are experiencing environmental stresses and shocks. Locations and respondents will cover the variation of all factors that affect such communities. For data collection, we are leaning more towards qualitative methods which include semi-structured interviews, in-depth interviews, focus group case studies, visual methods for collecting household data, narrative analysis, discourse analysis and oral history for social memories might also be enfolded within the research designs.&lt;/p&gt;</p></p>
