Households' perception of climate change and human health risks: A community perspective

Haque, Ekramul; Yamamoto, Shelby; Malik, Ahmad Azam; Sauerborn, Rainer

doi:10.1186/1476-069x-11-1

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“…Indeed, female-headed households are marginally more vulnerable than male-headed households [21]. These results are in line with the findings of Haque et al and Kartiki [22,23] in Bangladesh, who found that female-headed households are less resilient. However, Demetriates and Esplen and Below et al [24,25] have showed the contrary in sub-Saharan African contexts.…”

Section: Measuring Resiliencesupporting

confidence: 82%

Factors Affecting Rural Households’ Resilience to Food Insecurity in Niger

2016

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Abstract:Niger faces many natural and human constraints explaining the erratic evolution of its agricultural production over time. Unfortunately, this is likely to cause a decline in the food supply. This study attempts to identify factors affecting rural households' resilience to food insecurity in Niger. For this, we first create a resilience index by using principal component analysis and later apply structural equation modeling to identify its determinants. Data from the 2010 National Survey on Households' Vulnerability to Food Insecurity done by the National Institute of Statistics is used. The study shows that asset and social safety net indicators are significant and have a positive impact on households' resilience. Climate change approximated by long-term mean rainfall has a negative and significant effect on households' resilience. Therefore, to strengthen households' resilience to food insecurity, there is a need to increase assistance to households through social safety nets and to help them gather more resources in order to acquire more assets. Furthermore, early warning of climatic events could alert households, especially farmers, to be prepared and avoid important losses that they experience anytime an uneven climatic event occurs.

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Section: Measuring Resiliencesupporting

confidence: 82%

Factors Affecting Rural Households’ Resilience to Food Insecurity in Niger

2016

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“…Haque et al [9] found that majority of the participants (95%) in Bangladesh have reported that temperature during summer months has increased, while 80.2% participants reported that the rainfall has decreased. They also perceived that climate variability was negatively affecting the agriculture, human health and livelihoods as a whole.…”

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confidence: 99%

Determinants of Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change: A Case Study from the Coastal Region of Bangladesh

Uddin¹,

Bokelmann²,

Dunn³

2017

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Socio-economic conditions of farmers, especially in the coastal region in Bangladesh, have been severely affected because of climate change. This study was focused on analyzing the farmers' perception of climate change by examining three vital issues: (1) description of the socioeconomic characteristics of farmers; (2) reporting on the perception of farmers experiences with climatic change; and (3) identification of the socio-economic factors associated with farmers' perception of climate change. The study area encompasses three villages within the coastal region (Sathkhira district) of Bangladesh, a geographic region where climate change literature has highlighted as prone to accelerated degradation. A logit model, along with weighted indexes for ranking and descriptive statistics, was used to analyze the result of 100 farmers surveyed by questionnaire. We found that the majority of the farmers (88%) perceived changes in climatic conditions. Almost all farmers indicated increases in temperature, droughts, floods, cyclones, salinity level and decreasing rainfall over the last 20 years. The logit model explained that out of the nine factors surveyed; education, family size, farm size, family income, farming experiences and training received were significantly related and influential factors to perception of climate change. Therefore, government and non-governmental organizations are recommended to push forward with interventions, especially focusing on identified factors, in order to strengthen the farmers' capacity to battle against climate change effects.

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“…Several studies showed that children are worst victim of climate change [11] [12]. Some studies has been carried out both in developed and developing countries to understand the perceptions on the effects of climate change on health among communities [13]- [22]. Toan et al, [23] found in Hanoi that most people had clear perception about climate change and its impact on health.…”

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“…Toan et al, [23] found in Hanoi that most people had clear perception about climate change and its impact on health. People perceived that health problems usually increase during summer, monsoon and winter season [13] [23] [24]. Other studies reported different categories of health outcomes that are most likely to be affected by environmental change: temperature related health problems; health effects from extreme weather events; air-water related health effects and food and vector borne diseases [25]- [28].…”

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Adolescents Perception on Environmental Change and Health Risk in Two Divisions of Bangladesh

Dana¹,

Haque²

2015

JSS

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Bangladesh is facing and will have to face all the direct and indirect impacts of environmental change because of its geographical position. It is one of the developing countries susceptible to environmental disaster where almost each and every year environmental change is affecting the human health in a multi-dimensional way. The linkages between health and environmental change are mediated by the complex interactions of population, society and environmental systems. The objective of this study was to explore adolescents' perception on environmental change and health risk in two divisions of Bangladesh. Our analysis is based on quantitative data collection utilizing structured questionnaires. Simple random sampling was used to have a good representation of population. Total sample size of this study was 437. For the analysis of quantitative data both descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out based on the basis of study objectives. Most of the respondents (98.3%) stated that environmental change is causing serious health problems in Bangladesh. Majority respondents in Dhaka division perceived that there is an increase in the number of diseases during the summer and respondents in Rajshahi division perceived that number of diseases occur in all three seasons. The study observed that high level of awareness programmes will help to increase the success of different programmes initiated by the government to prevent diseases related to environmental change. Adolescents are aware about the environmental change that is taking place and causing health problems. The most influential factor on such awareness was the excess to receive information those who have information everyday had more knowledge about environmental change and its impact on health. Therefore to increase the knowledge and perception of health problems related to environmental change we need to arrange awareness programme, ensure excess to information and more research in this area.

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Households' perception of climate change and human health risks: A community perspective

Cited by 152 publications

References 23 publications

Factors Affecting Rural Households’ Resilience to Food Insecurity in Niger

Factors Affecting Rural Households’ Resilience to Food Insecurity in Niger

Determinants of Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change: A Case Study from the Coastal Region of Bangladesh

Adolescents Perception on Environmental Change and Health Risk in Two Divisions of Bangladesh

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