Indigenous Adaptation Practices for the Development of Climate Resilient Ecosystems in the Hail Haor, Bangladesh

Monwar, Md. Mostafa; Mustafa, Muhammad Norhaffis; Khan, Niaz Ahmed; Hossain, M. Shahadat; Hossain, Mohammad Mosarof; Majumder, Monoj Kumar; Chowdhury, Ruhul Mohaiman; Islam, Mohammad Amirul; Chowdhury, Mohammed Shah Nawaz; Alam, Mohammed Shafiul

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“…On the other hand, the diverse forms of obstacles, such as social, economic, environmental, and institutional barriers, damage the potentiality of adaptation and accelerate the vulnerability ( Bishokarma and Sharma, 2013 ). Several studies ( Runhaar et al., 2012 ; Monwar et al., 2018 ) identified that a lack of political will, lack of coordination among different stakeholders, scarcity of financial allocation, limited resources, and lack of awareness are considered as obstacles to sustainable adaptation. Moreover, social status and relations, religious practices, cultural issues are also hindering the adaptation from the perspective of health issues in Bangladesh ( Fresque-Baxter and Armitage, 2012 ).…”

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Climate change impacts and adaptations on health of Internally Displaced People (IDP): An exploratory study on coastal areas of Bangladesh

Chowdhury

Hasan

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Heliyon

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Every year thousands of people are being displaced in coastal areas of Bangladesh due to natural calamities associated with climate change, known as Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs). Climate change adaptation measures play a significant role in coping with the alteration of climatic components, while various forms of barriers hinder the sustainability of adaptation. This research was conducted to understand the perception of IDPs on climate change impact on health in the coastal areas of Bangladesh, including the adaptation practices and barriers to the coping strategies. To fulfill the objective, 420 individual surveys were conducted randomly in two Sub-districts of Khulna district in Bangladesh. The findings reveal that the riverbank erosion and cyclones were the primary reasons for displacement, and the social relationships were hampered in the new places of living. Also, the temperature in summer and winter, and the rainfall intensity increased, whereas rainfall slightly decreased over the last ten years. Differences of opinion were identified about the effects of the changing climatic variables on the respondents' health between the previous and present locations. Despite practicing different adaptive strategies, the weak financial condition and a lack of access to health care information are mostly hindering the sustainability of adaptation. This research may help policymakers in taking proper initiatives to ensure sustainable adaptation practices in the coastal areas.

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Climate change impacts and adaptations on health of Internally Displaced People (IDP): An exploratory study on coastal areas of Bangladesh

Chowdhury

Hasan

et al. 2020

Heliyon

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“…Since most natural-resource-dependent livelihood activities (e.g., fisheries, agriculture) in the study area are sensitive to climate change impacts, the livelihood vulnerability literature posits that a balance between natural and non-natural resource-dependent activities (e.g., wage earning, small business, migration) should help maintain livelihoods (Cinner and Bodin, 2010;Cinner et al, 2012). In the northeastern floodplain, household capital assets are used for collective action-based organization development and to diversify livelihoods through fishing, farming, livestock rearing, overseas and in-migration for jobs, small business enterprise, and seasonal business (Monwar et al, 2014). The community members use their peer networks and kinship for developing small-scale community organizations.…”

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“…However, as noted by Rahman et al (2018c) and Rahman et al (2015), the local political challenges that limit the efficiency and impact of these organizations often relate to local government inefficiency and lack of capacity, which can undermine the main objectives of community-based organization building. In addition to these organizations, community members also adopt other ways of accessing capital assets, such as taking loans from peers and relatives, micro finance organizations, government banks, or selling liquid assets, mortgaging and selling land property (Monwar et al, 2014;Kamal et al, 2018;Rahman et al, 2018c).…”

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What Does Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change Have to Teach Public Policy and Planning About Avoiding the Risks of Maladaptation in Bangladesh?

Rahman

Hickey

2019

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Climate vulnerability represents a highly complex public policy challenge for government due to its interaction with diverse social, political, economic, and ecological factors across scale. The policy challenge is further exacerbated when rural livelihood opportunities depend on multiple land use practices within shared social-ecological systems and adaptation actions related to one practice affects the others. In such cases, it becomes likely that national and regional-level adaptation plans will result in maladaptive trajectories if local context and properties are not carefully considered. This review highlights the importance of this issue to public policy using the case of climate change adaptation planning in Bangladesh to highlight how national and regional-level planned adaptation processes could benefit from paying closer attention to the autonomous adaptation processes occurring at local levels. Focussing on the northeastern floodplain region, an area dominated by wetland ecosystems, high climate vulnerability, and diverse and complex land use practices, we examine some of the community-level adaptation actions that are being undertaken in response to climate change and contrast these with national-level adaptation planning strategies and actions. We then analyze how the planned adaptation actions taken by government may actually end up being maladaptive, either by shifting or rebounding vulnerability. We conclude that government adaptation planning would benefit from a greater focus on learning and scrutinizing the autonomous adaptation of communities to climate stress before making significant resource allocation decisions.

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“…The entire hoar basin of Bangladesh occupies approximately 70,000-80,000 km 2 of wetlands, including freshwater and saltwater wetlands [9,10], in which the Sylhet-Mymensing Haor basin covers about 27,126.18 km 2 [11]. Wetlands usually support significant habitat and breeding grounds for many aquatic species [12,13]. For instance, it shelters about 293 freshwater native finfish, 24 exotic fish, 24 prawns, and numerous aquatic-terrestrial faunas [14,15].…”

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Analyses Implementation Realities of Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Management of Tanguar Haor Fisheries Resources in Bangladesh

Tima

Schneider

Chanda³

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Sustainability

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Tanguar Haor (TH) is considered one of the Ecologically Critical Areas (ECAs) of Bangladesh and is internationally recognized as RAMSAR wetland (2nd Ramsar site) known to provide multiple ecosystem services to the society. Nevertheless, multidimensional threats and stressors, the capacity to supply ESs, and the biodiversity of the TH significantly degrades and threatens this wetland’s conservation and sustainability. Although the legal framework promises the sustainable conservation of fisheries resources, information on the implementation scenarios of fisheries laws, regulations, and policies in the TH Ramsar are scant. By merging qualitative and quantitative data of primary and secondary sources, this research aimed to analyze the legal framework to check the effectiveness of regulations for non-conflicting fisheries resources and the sustainable conservation of the TH Ramsar. Primary empirical data were collected by employing Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools, i.e., 204 semi-structured questionnaire-based individual interviews with fishers, three focus group discussions, and 14 key informants’ interviews in three fishing villages in the TH. In contrast, secondary data was set by reviewing published literature and related official documents. Results showed that, due to weak enforcement with inadequate surveillance and poor implementation of the legal framework, there was a high non-compliance with fishing laws, rules, and policies. Destructive and prohibited fishing gears, e.g., the use of small mesh fine nylon nets (current jal), purse seine net (ber jal), and the harvesting during ban period-illicit catch were widespread in the study areas. In addition, catching undersized fish, fishing at the restricted areas (sanctuary area), and fishing during spawning seasons occur often. There is a crying need for a comprehensive legal and policy framework to contextualize the local context, ensure the proper implementation of the fishing laws and regulations, increase the managerial inefficiency of enforcing agencies, ensure livelihood support during the fishing ban, and afford good alternative income options are still significant issues for good governance in the Tanguar Haor ECA. Findings might help to identify the gaps and misunderstanding of the existing legal practice while submitting urgent attention to the need for drawing a comprehensive legal and policy framework (contextually modified according to the local context), taking initiatives and acting synchronously for proper implementation, and calling transdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation among the agencies that may ensure the non-conflicting use of the natural resources of the TH that can be also helpful for the better conservation of this Ramsar wetland.

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Indigenous Adaptation Practices for the Development of Climate Resilient Ecosystems in the Hail Haor, Bangladesh

Cited by 23 publications

References 9 publications

Climate change impacts and adaptations on health of Internally Displaced People (IDP): An exploratory study on coastal areas of Bangladesh

Climate change impacts and adaptations on health of Internally Displaced People (IDP): An exploratory study on coastal areas of Bangladesh

What Does Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change Have to Teach Public Policy and Planning About Avoiding the Risks of Maladaptation in Bangladesh?

Analyses Implementation Realities of Legal Frameworks for Sustainable Management of Tanguar Haor Fisheries Resources in Bangladesh

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