Political ecologies of resettlement in river deltas

Abstract

In river deltas, human interference with regional and global socio-ecological systems has led to a plethora of gradual and more abrupt environmental changes that result in inundation, coastal and river bank erosion, land loss and, ultimately, displaced people. Often apolitically framed as

Climate mobilities, rights and justice: Complexities and particularities

“…This is in part because the complexities of agency, culture, power, temporality and governance that shape how people live in, and possibly leave, a climate-impacted place are many. Meanwhile, the concepts of mobility, habitability, identity, values and place are variously and not always uniformly perceived and contested by residents, institutions and others (Sheller, 2018;Alam and Miller, 2019;Kita, 2019;Whyte et al, 2019;Blondin, 2021;McDonnell, 2021;Jessee, 2022;Neu and Fünfgeld, 2022;Nyantakyi-Frimpong and Dinko, 2022). Such complexities can compound as habitability declines over time in a changing climate, even as the ways in which habitability is measured and by who matters and is not uncontested (Duvat et al, 2021;Horton et al, 2021).…”

Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts

“…In fact, the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 proposes numerous coastal barriers (i.e., cross-dams) to trap sediment in the same region and accelerate the growth of new land for potential reclamation and human occupation 18 . The social, engineering, and political challenges of relocating displaced communities to emergent lands notwithstanding 19 , a pre-requisite for coastal land reclamation remains the uninhibited delivery of Ganges-Brahmaputra river sediment and its effective dispersal across the coastal zone.…”