Climate change perceptions and local adaptation strategies of hazard-prone rural households in Bangladesh

Alam, G. M. Monirul; Alam, Khorshed; Mushtaq, Shahbaz

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2017.06.006

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“…This study used a composite index-oriented LVI, which comprises the human, natural, physical, social, and financial household capital of a sustainable-livelihood framework (SLF) to provide better integration with sensitivity and adaptive capacity. This kind of methodology has been used by other scholars [1,4,[52][53][54][55]. The main limitation of SLF is its inability to integrate the indicators of sensitivity and adaptive capacity.…”

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Livelihood Vulnerability of Riverine-Island Dwellers in the Face of Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In particular, its riverine-island (char) dwellers face continuous riverbank erosion, frequent flooding, and other adverse effects of climate change that increase their vulnerability. This paper aims to assess the livelihood vulnerability of riverine communities by applying the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) vulnerability framework and the livelihood vulnerability index (LVI). Results indicate substantial variation in the vulnerability of char dwellers based on mainland proximity. The main drivers of livelihood vulnerability are char-dweller adaptation strategies and access to food and health services. The study further reveals that riverbank erosion, frequent flood inundation, and lack of employment and access to basic public services are the major social and natural drivers of livelihood vulnerability. Char-based policy focusing on short-and long-term strategy is required to reduce livelihood vulnerability and enhance char-dweller resilience.2 of 23 seasons are becoming drier. Challenges such as these are harmful not only to human life but also to the landscape that serves as the basis for successful agricultural activity, e.g., cropping patterns, pest infestations, crop yields, and water availability. Char dwellers regularly lose their agricultural assets, crops, livestock, and poultry, as well as the fiscal and human capital needed to maintain economic success and overall survival.Vulnerability is an emerging concept across disciplines, useful in understanding and assessing the status of people's condition in the face of natural hazards. The major characteristics of vulnerability are dynamic and influence people's social and biophysical processes and systems [2]. Significant mobilization is necessary from the government, nongovernmental organizations, researchers, and farmers to develop successful adaptation strategies [8,9]. The people of developing countries are a vulnerable community due to excessive dependency on agriculture and having low income [10]. However, these burdens may fuel the exploration of potential adaptive capacities of resource-poor communities [11,12]. The extent of people's susceptibility is increased due to the increasing vulnerability to natural hazards of almost all spheres of life, like the social, physical, human, financial, and natural dimensions [13,14]. Though the effect of natural hazards may be occasional, seasonal, or year-round [15,16], the extent of exposure is not the same for all communities.A context-specific approach is required for exploring and assessing vulnerability to draft proper policy and strategy at all administrative levels and reduce adverse effects on livelihoods [4,17,18]. The interaction between people and their biophysical and social environment is readily used to assess the development-policy framework by using specific indicators [19], representing context-specific adaptation strategies [20], to compare and monitor the extent of vulnerability over time, space, and reso...

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Livelihood Vulnerability of Riverine-Island Dwellers in the Face of Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

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“…However, heavy investments in agriculture following these famines have given rise to enhanced food production and have caused significant increases in domestic rice production [4,5]. Both the cultivation techniques and cropping patterns relating to rice production have gradually changed in terms of yield potential [6,7]. Despite huge population pressures, the country has reached self-sufficiency in rice production [8][9][10].…”

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“…Additionally, Bangladesh's economic situation is improving; as such, it is one among a rather small group of countries that have seen remarkable progress in terms of both economic performance and development indicators [11]. However, poverty remains a critical social concern in this country [6,12,13].…”

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“…To consider suitable adaptation technologies and policies for farmers, impact projections in terms of regional characteristics and poverty are needed far more. To alleviate the severity of climate change's impact on farm production and poverty, adaptation strategies, such as new crop varieties, changing planting times, homestead gardening, planting trees and migration, are vital approaches [6]. Furthermore, research that projects climate change's impacts on poverty or that pinpoints especially vulnerable regions and the vulnerability of farm household income under the impact of climate change is still needed [53,54].…”

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Farmers’ Net Income Distribution and Regional Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

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Furuya

Kobayashi

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Climate

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Widespread poverty is the most serious threat and social problem that Bangladesh faces. Regional vulnerability to climate change threatens to escalate the magnitude of poverty. It is essential that poverty projections be estimated while bearing in mind the effects of climate change. The main purpose of this paper is to perform an agrarian sub-national regional analysis of climate change vulnerability in Bangladesh under various climate change scenarios and evaluate its potential impact on poverty. This study is relevant to socio-economic research on climate change vulnerability and agriculture risk management and has the potential to contribute new insights to the complex interactions between household income and climate change risks to agricultural communities in Bangladesh and South Asia. This study uses analysis of variance, cluster analysis, decomposition of variance and log-normal distribution to estimate the parameters of income variability that can be used to ascertain vulnerability levels and help us to understand the poverty levels that climate change could potentially generate. It is found that the levels and sources of income vary greatly among regions of Bangladesh. The variance decomposition of income showed that agricultural income in Mymensingh and Rangpur is the main cause of the total income difference among all sources of income. Moreover, a large variance in agricultural income among regions is induced by the gross income from rice production. Additionally, even in the long run the gradual, constant reduction of rice yield due to climate change in Bangladesh is not a severe problem for farmers. However, extreme events such as floods, flash floods, droughts, sea level rise and greenhouse gas emissions, based on Representative concentration pathways (RCPs), could increase the poverty rates in Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Barisal and Khulna-regions that would be greatly affected by unexpected yield losses due to extreme climatic events. Therefore, research into and development of adaptation measures to climate change in regions where farmers are largely dependent on agricultural income are important.

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“…Yet, although some research on climate change perception has been done [12], at present, we lack even a rudimentary understanding of the factors shaping residents' climate change perception awareness nationally, owing to the unavailability of past data.Due to the uncertainty of climate change, the regional climate response to extreme climate events also varies greatly, which leads to significant differences in the public perception of climate change and its influencing factors in different regions. Alam et al [13] showed that residents' perception of climate change was highly correlated with extreme events caused by climate in Bangladesh. However, British scientists [14] reported that the individual risk perception level was not high.…”

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What Affects Chinese Residents’ Perceptions of Climate Change?

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The theme of global sustainable development has changed from environmental management to climate governance, and relevant policies on climate governance urgently need to be implemented by the public. The public understanding of climate change has become the prerequisite and basis for implementing various climate change policies. In order to explore the affected factors of climate change perception among Chinese residents, this study was conducted across 31 provinces and regions of China through field household surveys and interviews. Combined with the residents' perception of climate change with the possible affected factors, the related factors affecting Chinese residents' perception of climate change were explored. The results show that the perceptive level of climate change of Chinese residents is related to the education level and the household size of residents. Improving public awareness of climate change risk in the context of climate change through multiple channels will also help to improve residents' awareness of climate change. On the premise of improving the level of national education, improving education on climate change in school education and raising awareness of climate change risk among dependents will help to improve the level of Chinese residents' awareness of climate change, which could be instrumental in promoting public participation in climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. the public plays an important role in implementing mitigation and adaptation actions. Moreover, the perceptions of local people towards climate change are important, as they largely determined the ways local people respond to the impacts of climate change. Here, 'perceptions' refers to the way people identify and interpret observations and concepts related to climate change.Empirical evidence has shown that residents' perception of climate change is positively correlated with adaptive behavior [4]. Raising public awareness of the threats of climate change has become a common commitment to global action [5]. Unlike other natural disasters, uncertainty, future events, damage, and relativity are the major features of climate change risk, which makes it difficult for the public to distinguish climate change from natural variability. The uncertainty in climate change and its impacts has been accepted by the scientific community, but the public has its own understanding [6,7]. The grave consequences of climate change still pose a major threat to the values and interests of the public, despite the uncertainties, indirectness, and time lag [8]. Decision makers frequently weaken the uncertainty of climate change (to prove the rationality of their decision), and ignore the uncertainty of residents' awareness in the formulation of climate change policies, whose misconceptions will diminish the satisfaction and reception of decision-making [9,10]. Residents' perception plays the key, basic role in mitigation and adaption [11]. Therefore, understanding perceptions of climate change and its driving forces plays a signific...

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Climate change perceptions and local adaptation strategies of hazard-prone rural households in Bangladesh

Cited by 328 publications

References 67 publications

Livelihood Vulnerability of Riverine-Island Dwellers in the Face of Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

Livelihood Vulnerability of Riverine-Island Dwellers in the Face of Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

Farmers’ Net Income Distribution and Regional Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

What Affects Chinese Residents’ Perceptions of Climate Change?

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