Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration

Choudhury, Mahed-Ul-Islam; Haque, C. Emdad; Doberstein, Brent

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.007

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“…Instrumental learning facilitates marginal changes in policy (i.e., changes in policy instruments or programmatic interventions) whereas social learning is the driver of a paradigmatic shift in policy. At the local community-level, experiential learning occurs in the front loop of the model, while transformative learning takes place in the back loop, which leads to different forms of change (Choudhury, Haque, & Doberstein, 2021;Choudhury, Haque, & Hostetler, 2021;Choudhury, Haque, Nishat, & Byrne, 2021;Tschakert & Dietrich, 2010). The concepts of "revolt" and "remember" are useful in understanding the feedback loop between policy-and local community-level learning (Berkes & Ross, 2016).…”

Section: Feedback Loop Between Local and Policy Level Learningmentioning

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Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Choudhury

Shahidullah

2023

Sustainable Development

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Building community resilience has been widely recognized as a learning process at multiple societal levels, yet few prior studies have examined the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning. Following a qualitative research approach, we document experiential and transformative forms of learning from coastal cyclones in Bangladesh that help local community and their institutions mitigating the impact of cyclonic shocks and recovering from disaster‐related losses, both in the shorter and longer term. This study discovers that such community‐level learning (when scaled‐up) as well as learning from policy failure significantly enhanced programmatic interventions, which in turn enhanced community resilience to cyclones and future disasters. However, this feedback loop can be attenuated by multiple factors, such as lack of attention to community‐level learning by policy/decision makers in non‐disaster settings and the presence of a strong vested interest group, may impede learning‐based policy instrumentation. Boundary spanners or organizations can significantly improve the feedback loop, thus enhancing community resilience and improving policy.

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Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Choudhury

Shahidullah

2023

Sustainable Development

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“…This is where external deliberation is required to enhance livelihood resilience. Resilience scholarship highlights the importance of cross-scale and cross-level institutional linkage and collaboration (Choudhury, Haque, and Doberstein 2021a; Gunderson 2010). Evidence suggests that long-term recovery and resilient livelihood trajectory can be achieved through coordinated efforts put forth by different levels (local, national, and international) and types (formal and informal) of institutions (Sallu, Twyman, and Stringer 2010; Sina et al 2019b).…”

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“…It is difficult for communities to take a sustainable trajectory, in terms of livelihood recovery, without external assistance, especially after catastrophic disaster losses and damages (Berkes 2007; Goulden et al 2013). In such cases, it is vital to recognize the role of external supports in facilitating LTLR, reflecting the importance of cross-scale institutional linkage (Choudhury, Haque, and Doberstein 2021a; Gunderson 2010). This article, rather than taking a normative stance, critically examines the role of external assistance in LTLR, arguing that external assistance is more likely to be successful when aligned with prevailing local livelihood practices and when it is people-centered, culturally sensitive, and community-engaged (Gaillard and Peek 2019).…”

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Learning capacity and diversification, enabling and constraining factors, and external assistance: A cross-national comparative analysis of long-term livelihood recovery

Choudhury,

2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Despite a wide recognition of the importance of learning capacity and diversification, enabling and constraining factors, and external assistance in facilitating long-term livelihood recovery (LTLR), there is a paucity of comparison for a nuanced understanding of interconnections among the three themes (learning capacity and diversification, enabling and constraining factors, and external assistance) in different societal and disaster scenarios. Accordingly, this article employs a cross-national comparative approach in examining the interplay of these three factors in LTLR, within rural communities, following the two international post-disaster case studies, the 2007 Cyclone Sidr, Barguna, Bangladesh and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China. This cross-national comparison indicates that the affected communities in both cases experienced extreme challenges in LTLR while illustrating the differences. Learning capacity and diversification facilitated asset loss recovery and risk mitigation in the Sidr case, while the Wenchuan case demonstrated a limited learning opportunity for livelihood diversification. Enabling and constraining factors were identified in both case studies. Particularly, people-place connections positively shaped the LTLR in the Wenchuan case while producing negative results in the Sidr case. External assistance facilitated livelihood provisioning, protection, and promotion for the Sidr case; in contrast, giving little, if any, credence to the local traditional livelihood practice, the top-down external interventions in the Wenchuan case jeopardized the rural communities LTLR. This article defends that promoting grassroots participation in community reconstruction and recovery and strengthening grassroots livelihood learning and practice capacities would advance LTLR.

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“…Since then, it has been predominantly utilized in academic fields, ranging from the agricultural and environmental sciences to the medical sciences (Ciftcioglu, 2017). It proposes a superior opportunity to achieve sustainable development because every uncertainty is considered to be a blessing owing to the fact that it provides lessons, which can be explored by trial and error, and which can target the establishment of effective adaptability and transformability across temporal and spatial scales (Choundhury et al, 2021). Therefore, the concept of resilience is practicable.…”

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“…However, no one can manipulate an abundance of rainfall throughout a growing season because it is not determined by human efforts, but by hydro-meteorological factors (Amare et al, 2018). Thus, the circumstances require the presence of goals, practices, and measurements, which are defined by the stakeholders and are designed to build resilience in order to be the least susceptible when needing to cope with impromptu changes (Choundhury et al, 2021).…”

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Using the Delphi method to develop the social-ecological resilience indicators of organic rice production in Thailand

Panpakdee¹,

Simaraks²,

Sookcharoen³

2022

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This paper illustrates the application of the Delphi method, which assists in the production of social-ecological resilience indicators, and which are suitable for building the resilience of organic rice production in the central portion of Northeastern Thailand. Forty-seven adept farmers were purposively selected as participants, and the Delphi method was utilized as a tool by which the participants could reveal their different opinions and ideas. They were surveyed in order to visualize an organic rice system called the ‘desirable system.’ Nevertheless, such a system must be built simultaneously with certain components, the attributes of which can enable the system to withstand all kinds of change that can take place across spatial and temporal scales. The resilience literature, which is related to agro-ecological systems, had been published online during the seven previous years, and was applied to formulate questions, which were specifically aimed at establishing components that were focused upon coping and adaptive strategies. It was discovered that the inclusion of a group discussion, which had taken place with two rounds of the Delphi method, had provided a valuable means for exchanging information and responding with feedback. Given that the processes had been entirely conducted through group discussions, the voices of a few participants were, however, lost. They were dominated by the innate power expressed by other members within the group, especially the leaders. Despite this, the Delphi method was able to achieve an adequate degree of consensus among participants and was able to lead in the direction of building resilience with a significant level of confidence, which was capable of overcoming the social-ecological complexities of organic rice production. This was evidenced by the discovery of 21 social-ecological resilience indicators, which had been constructed by the engagement. Moreover, the indicators had indeed been reliable. With the support of the consensus of the participants’ judgements, which were based on their actual contexts of organic rice production in the central portion of Northeastern Thailand, the indicators were able to be validated by statistical analyses, consisting of arithmetic means (x), standard deviations (sd), and interquartile ranges (R).

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Adaptive governance and community resilience to cyclones in coastal Bangladesh: Addressing the problem of fit, social learning, and institutional collaboration

Cited by 23 publications

References 292 publications

Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Learning capacity and diversification, enabling and constraining factors, and external assistance: A cross-national comparative analysis of long-term livelihood recovery

Using the Delphi method to develop the social-ecological resilience indicators of organic rice production in Thailand

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