Livelihood challenges of ‘double strike’ disasters: Evidence from rural communities of southwest coastal Bangladesh during the Covid-19 pandemic and cyclone Amphan

Priodarshini, Rup; Biswas, Bangkim; Higuera, Ana Mariá Sánchez; Mallick, Bishawjit

doi:10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100100

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“…The COVID-19 lockdowns were cited as aggravating events impacting incomes, market and labour mobilities. Those results are similar to those observed in multiple crises, aggravating community and individual vulnerability and exposing inequalities and inequities [13,60,61].…”

Section: -A Context Of Multiple Changes and Crisessupporting

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Local social-ecological context explains seasonal rural-rural migration of the poorest in south-west Bangladesh

Clech,

Sierra,

Mannan

et al. 2024

PLOS Clim

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Bangladesh is one of the countries most affected by climate change. Internal migration is often presented as a response to environmental degradation. Here, using a people-centred perspective, we explore the complexity of the links between climate-induced change, environmental degradation caused by waterlogging and seasonal rural migration. We used an inductive qualitative approach in social sciences, conducting fourteen semi-directed interviews and six focus group discussions in March-April 2022. We related those results to a rainfall analysis on CHIRPS data for 1981-2021and we represented interactions and feedback between changes and livelihoods in a model. A complex picture of the situation is emerging, showing the interweaving effects of non-climatic and climatic changes, their interplay at different scales, their cumulative effects, the interactions between livelihood types and feedback between social and natural systems. Most of the climate-induced changes gradually become noticeable over the past 25 years. Climate data confirm these changes in recent decades, with July being wetter and January being dryer. Villagers reported waterlogging as the most significant change in their community, pointing to its multiple causes, originating in non-local and local, non-climatic anthropic changes, exacerbated by shrimp farm enclosures and worsened by climate-induced changes such as heavier rains, wetter monsoons and cyclones. Tiger prawn farms, reported as a lucrative and local adaptation to waterlogging and salinisation for the ones who can afford it, worsen the situation for the less wealthy, causing waterlogging and salinisation of the adjacent agricultural lands and buildings, the disappearance of traditional fishing and a reduction of the local job market. In addition, erratic rain patterns, droughts and cyclones affect local production and labour markets. COVID-19 lockdowns, by impacting markets and mobilities, further aggravated the situation. Inequality has increased as the range of adaptations of the less wealthy appears limited in this context of multiple crises.

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Section: -A Context Of Multiple Changes and Crisessupporting

confidence: 87%

“…Shrimp production is an important source of income for the country and leads to local power dynamics over access to natural resources to the disadvantage of the less wealthy [4,5,12]. Other global changes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, have added to the burden of this population [13] and should not be ignored.…”

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Local social-ecological context explains seasonal rural-rural migration of the poorest in south-west Bangladesh

Clech,

Sierra,

Mannan

et al. 2024

PLOS Clim

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“…There are cumulative impacts of COVID-19 and climate change on marine aquaculture [41]. Moreover, COVID-19, cyclones, and monsoon flooding affect coastal aquaculture [42,43]. There has been a coincidence of climate change, COVID-19, fuel price increases, and war (e.g., Russia, Ukraine, Yemen)-all of these factors may affect aquaculture in the future [15••, 44].…”

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Aquaculture Production and Value Chains in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ahmed

Azra

2022

Curr Envir Health Rpt

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Purpose of Review The purpose of this review is to summarize the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on aquaculture input supply, production, distribution, and consumption. Recent Findings The COVID-19 pandemic–related lockdowns, social distancing, supply chain disruptions, and transport restrictions affect seafood production, distribution, marketing, and consumption. Recommendations are suggested to overcome these challenges. Summary The COVID-19 has led to disruption of aquaculture practices worldwide. The pandemic has adversely affected the aquaculture input supply of fish stocking and feeding, which, in turn, has impacted aquaculture production. Moreover, the COVID-19 crisis has had adverse effects on value addition to aquaculture products, through the restrictions of seafood marketing and exporting. Aquatic food production is vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19 outbreak; hence, adaptation strategies must be developed to cope with the challenges. There is an urgent need for collaboration among key stakeholders to rebuild the supply chain of inputs and fish marketing for sustainable aquaculture practices. International agencies, donors, government and non-governmental organizations, researchers, and policymakers need to develop policies to support aquaculture production and supply chains.

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“…In May 2020, Amphan, a category-5 TC with respect to the Saffir-Simpson scale, formed in the BoB and then struck India (especially West Bengal) and Bangladesh on May 20th successively, making it the costliest storm recorded in the BoB (Priodarshini et al 2021 ). The entire variation process of Amphan’s track and its intensity with a 3 h time interval is shown in Fig.…”

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Dynamical characteristics of Amphan and its impact on COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh

Meng

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2023

Meteorol Atmos Phys

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In May 2020, a category-5 tropical cyclone (TC) Amphan formed in the Bay of Bengal and struck the coasts of India and Bangladesh. In this study, the relevant dynamic characteristics and aftermaths of Amphan are documented. Through detailed investigation of the reanalysis and observation data, spatiotemporal varying characteristics of the atmospheric and oceanic parameters during the Amphan propagation process were analyzed. Due to a wide range of high sea surface temperature anomaly, Amphan developed rapidly and ultimately led to the local heavy precipitation and strong winds in the coastal areas during its passage. It is also noted that the recorded wave height, wave period, and current speed all amplified when Amphan passed by and the characteristics of wave and current directions are also consistent with the temporal variation of the corresponding wind field. Meanwhile, Amphan occurred in accompany with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In Khulna Division of Bangladesh, the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases increased rapidly after Amphan landing, which however was almost nil before the event, indicating there might exist a possible correlation between Amphan and the intensive outbreak of the local COVID-19, and particular attentions should be paid to deal with the multi-type, coexisting disasters if different or even conflicting measures are required.

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Livelihood challenges of ‘double strike’ disasters: Evidence from rural communities of southwest coastal Bangladesh during the Covid-19 pandemic and cyclone Amphan

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Local social-ecological context explains seasonal rural-rural migration of the poorest in south-west Bangladesh

Local social-ecological context explains seasonal rural-rural migration of the poorest in south-west Bangladesh

Aquaculture Production and Value Chains in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dynamical characteristics of Amphan and its impact on COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh

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