“Disasters threaten livelihoods, and people cope, adapt and make transformational changes”: Community resilience and livelihoods reconstruction in coastal communities of Bangladesh

Uddin, Md. Azhar; Haque, C. Emdad; Khan, Mohammad Nuruzzaman; Doberstein, Brent; Cox, Robin S.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102444

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“…This is a process of strengthening agency, understood as post-disaster adaptive capacity, which is expressed in the wellbeing of the population with regard to mental health and quality of life [18] (p. 127). In short, resilience is "a process that links a set of adaptive capacities to a positive trajectory of functioning and adaptation following a disturbance" [19] (p. 4). In short, DRR is focused on relief and response and, more often than not, is applied in a top-down manner from state actors to the community, whereas CBDM prioritizes community resilience from a bottom-up perspective (Figure 1).…”

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“…(iv) improving disaster preparedness for effective response and to "build back better" in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction [20]. Similarly, the "International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) framework for community resilience asserted, a resilient community strengthens the ability of its constituent individuals and households, and possesses a number of resilience-enhancing features, including that it: (i) is knowledgeable, healthy and capable of meeting its basic needs; (ii) is socially cohesive; (iii) offers economic opportunities; (iv) possesses well-maintained and accessible infrastructure and services; (v) effectively manages its natural assets; and (vi) is well-connected" [19] (p. 4).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Persistent Vulnerability after Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Response: The Case of Salgar, Colombia

Valencia Londoño,

Valencia Londoño

2024

Sustainability

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Community-based disaster management (CBDM) has replaced traditional models of disaster risk reduction (DRR), giving the community a more participatory role in the planning and implementation of risk mitigation and preparedness strategies, disaster response, and post-disaster recovery measures. This shift in disaster response approaches has impacted understandings of vulnerability and resilience, leading scholars and policy makers to move away from a physical definition of vulnerability and to incorporate social variables. However, in Colombia, a traditional DRR approach still prevails. The National Risk Management Policy employs a top-down approach to risk reduction and disaster management, relying on the action of governmental authorities without community participation in the design or implementation of risk management planning and strategy. This article reveals the deficiencies of traditional DRR approaches. The Colombian government’s post-disaster resettlement project after a 2015 landslide in Salgar, Antioquia that resulted in 98 people dead or missing did not contribute to the reduction of vulnerability for the resettled community. To accurately measure post-disaster vulnerability and resilience, a new holistic model of indicators that includes both social and biophysical variables that illustrate and measure the relevance of preexisting vulnerabilities was developed. Local data was collected through 178 surveys administered to the inhabitants of Salgar’s three post-disaster resettlement sectors—La Habana, La Florida, and Las Margaritas—to construct an accurate picture of the populations affected by the disaster. Our results show that in the case of Salgar, social vulnerabilities persist even in the physical components of the resettlement sites where new infrastructure would be expected to reduce hazardous conditions and exposure to risk.

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Section: The Changing Paradigm Of Risk Management: From Management To...mentioning

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Persistent Vulnerability after Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Response: The Case of Salgar, Colombia

Valencia Londoño,

Valencia Londoño

2024

Sustainability

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“…The community resilience literature has long pointed out that identifying sustainability outcomes and achieving them are processes that result from the transformative learning and deliberativeness that occur within and among communities living with risk (Davidson, 2010; Davoudi, 2012; Magis, 2010; Wilson, 2012). Social learning (transformative learning) and sustainability transformation are key processes at the very core of the proactive agency that underlie community resilience in localities (Berkes & Ross, 2013; Choudhury et al, 2021; Haque & Doberstein, 2021; Imperiale & Vanclay, 2016a, 2016b, 2021a; Uddin et al, 2021; Wilson, 2015). Transformative learning and sustainability transformation occur when people realise that they live in situations of risk, that the preventive measures they have enacted in the past have failed, or that enhancing the ways by which local risks and impacts are reduced and community wellbeing is enhanced is a common need that must be collectively addressed.…”

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Re‐designing Social Impact Assessment to enhance community resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action and Sustainable Development

Imperiale

Vanclay

2023

Sustainable Development

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Enhancing disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community resilience are fundamental for sustainable development. However, cultural and political‐institutional barriers hinder governments from progressing towards sustainability. We propose a redesign of social impact assessment (SIA) to make it more applicable to the field of regional and urban planning, and we discuss the role SIA can have in enhancing community resilience to achieve DRR and sustainable development in localities. We argue that, to convert SIA into a tool that can inform regional recovery and development planning, a rethinking of SIA and of the role of SIA practitioners is needed. We therefore expound the SIA Framework for Action and we enhance it to be a community‐based process focussed on informing regional policies and plans and decisions about the projects to be included in such plans. Application of the SIA Framework for Action will help governments overcome the barriers to DRR and sustainable development.

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“…In response to livelihood vulnerabilities and impacts of climate change people employ various strategies. For instance, in Bangladesh people take loans, sell produce, and resort to domestic liquid assets (Hossain et al, 2020), generating diversified livelihood options and self-organizing (Uddin et al, 2021).…”

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Rural households' food security and its determinants in coastal regions of Bangladesh

Panezai

Moniruzzaman

Saqib

et al. 2022

Natural Resources Forum

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The coastal zone of Bangladesh is suffering from a wide range of climate change‐driven hazards. Limited attention has been given to these zones' food security assessment. Therefore, this study aims to assess the status of food security and its determinants among different groups of Bangladeshi coastal households. It also identifies their livelihood risks and coping strategies during stressed situations. Data were collected from 1350 households from coastal districts through a questionnaire survey. Food security was calculated and compared with the recommended average (2400 kcal/capita/day). A binary logit model was used to identify the determinants of food security among rural coastal households. Livelihood risks and coping mechanisms were recorded through open‐ended questions. The findings of this study revealed that although on average, sampled households were food secure (2753 kcal/capita/day), 81% of landless households and 72% of marginal landholders within the sample appeared food insecure. Among various food items, rice supplied the greatest total daily calorie intake (1841.47 kcal), second was the edible oil (172.27 kcal). The regression model revealed that farm size, farm income, off‐farm income, and crop production had positive impacts on households' food security. Floods, salinity, heavy rainfall, and reduction of land productivity were high risks to the large farm households, while heavy rainfall, floods, and salinity were high risks to the landless farm households. To cope with these risks, the majority of large farm households used their savings and sold livestock and poultry as coping strategies. The landless and marginal farmers were mostly helped by nongovernmental and government‐run organizations, moved elsewhere to find work, sold their labor, and were involved in fishing. It was concluded that different groups of farmers face different challenges. Our findings indicate that in order to protect landless and marginal farmers, government should implement policies aimed at increasing crop production by means of prioritizing saline‐tolerant crop varieties and the creation of more job opportunities.

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“Disasters threaten livelihoods, and people cope, adapt and make transformational changes”: Community resilience and livelihoods reconstruction in coastal communities of Bangladesh

Cited by 52 publications

References 71 publications

Persistent Vulnerability after Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Response: The Case of Salgar, Colombia

Persistent Vulnerability after Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Response: The Case of Salgar, Colombia

Re‐designing Social Impact Assessment to enhance community resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action and Sustainable Development

Rural households' food security and its determinants in coastal regions of Bangladesh

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