Livelihood Vulnerability and Displacement in Coastal Bangladesh: Understanding the Nexus

Saroar, Mustafa; Routray, Jayant K.; Filho, Walter Leal

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14938-7_2

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“…The linkage between disaster exposures, degradation of resource-base, vulnerability and coping/adaptation through occupational diversification has been well documented in disaster literature (Abdellati et al, 2003;Adger, 2000;Brooks, 2000;Berkes, 1989, Haque, 2006Huq et al, 2015;Paul, 2014;Saroar & Routray, 2010;Saroar et al, 2015;Sarwar, 2005). Many of them have compared the pre-disaster situation of livelihood with the post-disaster livelihood situation.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Similarly, due to poverty (poor), people get less protection against disasters' impacts which is jeopardized by low coping capacity during and after the hazardous event that turns them into a highly vulnerable situation. Again, as they often have a very limited set of occupational skills, job diversification as coping and adaptation strategy usually do not works well especially where there is policy negligence to support and promote occupational diversification through planned skill enhancement program (Saroar et al, 2015). Some cases even initiatives of various agencies and stakeholders' mismatch and often create a hurdle to diversify household livelihood activities as well as the potentiality of livelihood sustainability (UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2002 cited in (Gwimbi, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, the common limitations of these studies are-a) they are heavily drawing on qualitative nature of inquiry which is very hard to generalize; b) most studies have done in macro-context, leaving the local community unaddressed; c) none of these studies has done in the Sutarkhali Union of Dacope Upazila in south-west Khulna. Only notable exceptions are Paul (2014) and Saroar et al (2015) who did in Dacope Upazila or sites close to Dacope Upazila but only have focused on the impact of cyclonic surges and salinity on livelihood from a broader sense. This study fills these research gaps in three ways.…”

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Livelihood Sustainability Status and Challenges of South-western Coastal Area of Bangladesh

Fatema¹,

Aktar²,

Khan³

et al. 2020

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The exposure of disaster varies based on its surroundings and resilience of the people. Apparently, the southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh is confronting at great risk for its geophysical settings. Notwithstanding, Bangladesh has a long history of coping with disasters and recovery form damages. This study attempted to measure the livelihood sustainability status that had taken by the rural people of Sutarkhali after the severe cyclonic storm Aila occurred in 2009. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted in Sutarkhali union of Dacope Upazila under Khulna District, Bangladesh. Data were collected from different occupational groups living in a coastal community through survey methods using a structured questionnaire. A total of 260 household heads were participated in this study. The study findings reveal that the respondents have changed their livelihood activities after Aila but the livelihood is not sustainable and satisfactory. The overall sustainability score (39.85) identified in this study based on the DFID indicators means, sustainability of the diversified livelihood is unsustainable and less satisfactory. This study also found various constraints towards livelihood sustainability. Based on the weighted average index this study found the major constraints of livelihood sustainability are natural disasters, lack of education, lack of government initiatives etc.

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“…There are community-based adaptation programmes and early warning systems aimed at building resilience against hydro-meteorological coastal hazards (MoEF 2008;Ahmed 2010;Saroar et al 2015). Bangladesh has pioneered community-based adaptation (CBA) to reduce vulnerability to climate change since 2000.…”

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“…The increase in vulnerability standing in Bangladesh from 1999 to 2014 demonstrates the usefulness of taking appropriate actions, regardless though, its readiness has only consistently improved since 2004 (ND-Gain 2016) coinciding with the first NAPA in 2005 (Irfanullah 2016). This was made possible through (i) reducing poverty (Pov), (ii) increasing capacity building, knowledge, and awareness, (iii) institutional strengthening and planned interventions, (iv) enhancing OWM, (v) implementing innovative CBA and EbA, and (vi) hard/soft engineering solutions (Ahmed 2005;MoEF 2005;IWM & CEGIS 2007;Saroar et al 2015;Lwasa 2015).…”

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Fostering coastal resilience to climate change vulnerability in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon and Uruguay: a cross-country comparison

Filho

Modesto

Nagy

et al. 2017

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This paper describes a comparative study of four different cases on vulnerability, hazards and adaptive capacity to climate threats in coastal areas and communities in four developing countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, and Uruguay. Coastal areas are vulnerable to sea level rise (SLR), storm surges and flooding due to their (i) exposure, (ii) concentration of settlements, many of which occupied by less advantaged groups, and (iii) the concentration of assets and services seen in these areas. The objective of the paper is twofold: (i) to evaluate current evidence of coastal vulnerability and adaptive capacity, and (ii) to compare adaptation strategies being implemented in a sample of developing countries, focusing on successful ones. The followed approach for the case evaluation is based on (i) documenting observed threats and damages, (ii) using indicators of physical and socioeconomic vulnerability, and adaptive capacity status, and (iii) selecting examples of successful responses. Major conclusions based on crosscase comparison are (a) the studied countries show different vulnerability, adaptive capacity and implementation of responses and (b) early warning systems are key to increase climate resilience. A recommendation is that efforts in adaptation planning in coastal areas should be intensified so as to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities.

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Post-cyclone Occupational Vulnerabilities of Farmers in South-West Coastal Region of Bangladesh

Khan

Roy

Alam

2021

Climate Change Management

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Livelihood Vulnerability and Displacement in Coastal Bangladesh: Understanding the Nexus

Cited by 9 publications

References 28 publications

Livelihood Sustainability Status and Challenges of South-western Coastal Area of Bangladesh

Livelihood Sustainability Status and Challenges of South-western Coastal Area of Bangladesh

Fostering coastal resilience to climate change vulnerability in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon and Uruguay: a cross-country comparison

Post-cyclone Occupational Vulnerabilities of Farmers in South-West Coastal Region of Bangladesh

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