Inequalities in Human Well-Being in the Urban Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna Delta

Szabo, Sylvia; Hajra, Rituparna; Baschieri, Angela; Matthews, Zoë

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“…A negative value means the disproportionate concentration among the poor group while a positive value indicates the concentration exists among the rich group. 14,15 A zero concentration index value indicates that there is no socio-economic inequality.…”

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Nutrition status and inequality among children in different geographical regions of Maharashtra, India

Khadse

Chaurasia

2020

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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Introduction: Nutritional status is influenced by the complex social, biological, environmental and cultural factors that are highly interrelated. Despite being a demographically and economically developed state, Maharashtra has a high prevalence rate of child malnutrition with alarming figures. There is uneven development in different geographical regions. Aim: This paper assesses the extent of nutritional status and inequalities among children in different regions of Maharashtra. Data and Methods: This study utilizes data from the fourth Round of the National Family Health Survey (2015-16), the large-scale survey on demography and health recently conducted. Simple chi-square test was conducted to test the association and, further binary logistic regression analysis was done by adjusting various socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Additionally, to deal with the inequality aspect, concentration curve, concentration index, and decomposition analysis techniques were used to access and measure the degree of socioeconomic inequality in geographical regions of Maharashtra. Results: The result shows that household aspect wealth quintile, religion caste/tribe, mother education, child ever born and different regions of Maharashtra were the main factors contributing to poor child malnutrition. Rural area has the highest percentage of underweight (40%) children followed by stunted (38%) and wasted (26%) respectively. Almost half of the children are underweight whose mother has no education, with 45% of stunted and 26% wasted children. Nandurbar district of North-Maharashtra regions has a prevalence of underweight (56.17 per 100) and stunted (47.38 per 100) children while Gadchiroli district of Vidarbha region has highest prevalence of wasted (46.59 per 100) children respectively. Discussion: Due to lack of proper development, poor awareness about keeping up and improving the dietary benefit of nourishment and absence of cleanliness and sanitation as compared with other social groups. Conclusions: The aim of this paper was to explore the geographical variations in malnutrition in Maharashtra. The present study plentifully uncovers that, as far as child nutrition is concerned, the Scheduled Tribes groups seems to be socially excluded among all the social classes. Economic growth has played a definite role in reducing child nutrition, but it is not primarily responsible for the significant decline. As per the results, we have seen that among rich and poor inequalities exists and were highly significantly different regions of Maharashtra. Recommadations: The paper calls for state and regions specific strategies which are needed to be designed and executed on a priority basis, keeping in view the keeping in view the idea of disparity or the nature of inequality in childhood malnutrition in the state and its differential characteristics across the regions.

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Nutrition status and inequality among children in different geographical regions of Maharashtra, India

Khadse

Chaurasia

2020

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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“…As a consequence, a widespread shift in land use practice, rural-urban migration and seeking employment in non-natural resource-dependent livelihood activities have been emerging [117,120,140]. However, it has also been observed that vulnerability has intensified as a consequence of widespread poverty, limited access to natural resources and insufficient institutional development at the local level [61,[141][142][143][144]. In relation to rural livelihoods, resource distribution and access are particularly important because ownership of resources enhances the capacity of affected communities to take adaptive actions [89].…”

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An Analytical Framework for Assessing Context-Specific Rural Livelihood Vulnerability

Rahman

Hickey

2020

Sustainability

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Reviewing both conceptual and empirical studies on climate vulnerability and adaptation assessment, this paper offers an analytical framework to help better understand how context-specific adaptation strategies could be developed. The framework systematically assembles the Sustainable Rural Livelihoods and the Vulnerability Assessment frameworks to develop its structural and analytical components. The resulting five-step approach involves: (i) identification of context along with understanding what aspect of vulnerability need to be studied; (ii) assessment of livelihood exposure to climate impacts involving both community perspectives and meteorological data-based climate forecasts; (iii) characterization of available capital asset usages to help buffer climate sensitivity; (iv) analysis of formal and informal institutional impetus to enhance adaptive capacity; and (v) evaluation of gaps between context-specific vulnerability and institutional and policy responses to avoid maladaptive trajectories. Drawing on published research and policy documentation, we apply the framework to the livelihood systems operating in the northeastern floodplain community of Bangladesh to demonstrate the utility of the approach and then discuss its potential to inform adaptation strategies.

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“…The socio-economic properties of rural Bangladesh include poverty, disproportionate distributions of livelihood resources and socially-embedded political marginalization, generally maintained by insufficient and often inefficient institutional systems at local levels (see for detail Rahman et al, 2014Rahman et al, , 2015Haq and Ahmed, 2016;Szabo et al, 2016;Alam, 2017;Islam, 2017). In relation to rural livelihoods, resource distribution and access are considered particularly important because resource ownership enhances the capacity of affected communities to take adaptive actions (Ribot, 2014).…”

Section: Vulnerability Of Land Use-based Rural Livelihoods In Bangladeshmentioning

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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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Inequalities in Human Well-Being in the Urban Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna Delta

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Nutrition status and inequality among children in different geographical regions of Maharashtra, India

Nutrition status and inequality among children in different geographical regions of Maharashtra, India

An Analytical Framework for Assessing Context-Specific Rural Livelihood Vulnerability

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

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