Flood-induced vulnerabilities and problems encountered by women in northern Bangladesh

Azad, Abul Kalam; Hossain, Khondoker Mokaddem; Nasreen, Mahbuba

doi:10.1007/s13753-013-0020-z

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“…Unfortunately, women are more likely to be single heads of households, leading to an overrepresentation of single mothers, female widows, and divorced and elderly women in natural disaster mortality statistics (Ollenburger and Tobin ). Furthermore, such women are still restricted by purdah, exacting additional obstacles to single‐head female households when procuring disaster relief (Azad and others ).…”

Section: Why Women Die At Higher Ratesmentioning

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Women, Gender Norms, and Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

Juran

Trivedi

2015

Geographical Review

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Women and men are impacted differently by natural disasters, leading to claims that there exist gendered disaster vulnerabilities and a "gendered terrain of disasters" (Enarson and Morrow 1998). What makes this contention even more academically and practically relevant are recent increases in the number of natural disasters and affectees (Guha-Sapir and others 2004; Paul 2011). The confluence of gender and disaster is particularly clear in Bangladesh, a country challenging twin specters of gender issues and an array of regularly occurring natural disasters. Bangladesh's unique geographic situation of extreme population densities overlaid on a low-lying deltaic and coastal landscape interacts with the nation's range of social and environmental transitions: issues of democracy, government corruption, poverty, rural-urban divides, and gender parity, coupled with problems related to multihazard risk, looming effects of climate change, and issues of environmental justice that predispose certain demographics to heightened levels of risk. Thus, the topic of gender and natural disasters presents a valuable junction for practical and academic exploration, representing a space where these transitions jointly manifest, coexist, and both create and reveal vulnerability. THE VULNERABILITY CALCULUSVulnerability comprises a vast, continually expanding literature. This brief discussion is nonexhaustive, but meant to situate vulnerability as inherently complex and transdisciplinary. Here, vulnerability is characterized as multidimensional and defined as the absence of physical and ecological features, natural and human resources, and social, economic, political, and technological capacities that offer protection from the shocks of natural disaster (Comfort and others 1999;Cutter and Finch 2008).

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Section: Why Women Die At Higher Ratesmentioning

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Women, Gender Norms, and Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

Juran

Trivedi

2015

Geographical Review

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“…However, from country to country or region to region, women’s health status is generally violated in disasters. Of the large number of studies conducted on the detrimental health effects of disasters, the majority has revealed that women are more affected by natural disasters than men,4 indicating that women have a higher vulnerability to the impact of natural disasters 5–7…”

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Women’s health-related vulnerabilities in natural disasters: a systematic review protocol

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IntroductionThere is a paucity of evidence identifying both the physical and psychological health risks and underlying causes of women’s health-related vulnerabilities related to natural disasters. Therefore, this systematic review will be conducted to determine the impact of natural disasters on women’s health from a global perspective.Methods and analysisFive electronic databases of health research, including ProQuest, ProQuest Health and Medicine, PubMed, PsycINFO and CINAHL, will be searched to retrieve relevant literature where Medical Subject Headings terms and keywords will be used depending on the search method of each database. Google Scholar will also be searched for preliminary information on the topic and to check for further evidence that may have been missed. Inclusion and exclusion criteria will be developed and refined by the research team. We will restrict our search for empirical full-text articles published in the English language peer-reviewed journals between July 2008 and June 2018 to ensure contemporary evidence is retrieved. Two authors will participate in each step in the process, including title, abstract and full-text screening against inclusion criteria, data extraction and quality appraisal. The quality of selected studies will be assessed using the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool. Data synthesis will follow a sequential explanatory approach. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative findings will be merged under themes and described using a narrative approach.Ethics and disseminationFormal ethical approval is not required as primary data will not be collected. The results will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal and presented at national and international conferences.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019123809.

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“…Surveys in one vulnerable region, the Jamuna River floodplain, report that 49% of households found it necessary to relocate during the period 1962−2016 due to flooding, with the vast majority resettling within 5 km of their previous location (Ferdous et al., 2019). Durations of major flood events along the Brahmaputra–Janina River during 1988−2007 ranged from 16 to 67 days (Ali et al., 2019), so even those not permanently relocating experienced lengthy displacements, lost livelihoods, reduced food and clean water intake, and inadequate sanitation (Azad, Hossein & Nasreen, 2013; Dewan, 2015).…”

Section: Short‐term Fluctuations In the Demand For Shelter And Servicesmentioning

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“…Half of those displaced went temporarily to exposed sites including elevated roads, railways, embankments, and dams; about one quarter went to schools and community centers; and the remainder likely went to private homes and rentals (Azad, Hossein & Nasreen, 2013, p. 195). This contrasts starkly with the U.S. experience of moving mostly to motels and rental buildings.…”

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Toward a research agenda on climate‐related migration

Andrews

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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Climate change is one of the many stressors to which humans must adapt. Environmental concerns usually combine with other factors such as poverty, ethnic strife, or poor governance to become serious enough problems to warrant strong action. Migration away from affected areas is one time-tested response. This article proposes a migration-oriented research agenda for industrial ecology based on an examination of migration flows and ways of thinking about them, variations across contexts, implications for infrastructure and housing, the framing of climate-related migration, and short-term and longer-term fluctuations in the demand for shelter and services in high and low income countries. Elements of this agenda include understanding decentralized migration decisions, developing socio-ecologically based solutions for migration-related problems, and embracing an urban focus that makes infrastructures more adaptable and makes cities more resilient and equitable.

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Flood-induced vulnerabilities and problems encountered by women in northern Bangladesh

Cited by 117 publications

References 10 publications

Women, Gender Norms, and Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

Women, Gender Norms, and Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

Women’s health-related vulnerabilities in natural disasters: a systematic review protocol

Toward a research agenda on climate‐related migration

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