Transformative learning and community resilience to cyclones and storm surges: The case of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Choudhury, Mahed-Ul-Islam; Haque, C. Emdad; Hostetler, Glen

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102063

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“…We found a positive interaction within a single level as respondents who engaged in formal institutions, such as fishers association, also mentioned their ability to voice and lead. However, the number of fishers involved in the association was very low and previous studies on small-scale fishing communities of Bangladesh also revealed poor participation in management activities (Islam et al, 2014(Islam et al, , 2020bAlam et al, 2021;Choudhury et al, 2021). Berkes and Ross (2013) also demonstrated the need for a community agency and social organization to enhance community resources.…”

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“…At the present study sites, respondents also lacked access to financial institutions, such as banks, and formal education, exemplifying socio-economic barriers. Choudhury et al (2021) noted that the overall community system often constrains fishers' capacity. Our findings stand in line with their conclusion as most of the fishers were in an unhealthy relationship with the informal money lenders, which adversely affected community cohesion and indicated a negative interaction between community and household level resilience features.…”

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Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban

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The unusual situation that arose due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 65-day fishing ban (national policy to boost depleted fish stocks) affected the lower-income fishing communities in coastal Bangladesh. Shocks and stresses were posed, and community people adopted strategies to adapt to the changes. In the process of adaptation, social-ecological systems resilience at different levels plays a crucial role. Though resilience is acknowledged as multilevel feature, studies on the interaction between the levels while understanding communities’ responses to shock and stress are limited. Thus, in this study, we explored the shocks and stresses the fishing community faced and their views on the resilience feature at different levels (i.e., individual, household, and community level) in coastal Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic and 65-day fishing ban period. The study found that the most resilience promoting features (e.g., diversified livelihood, friendship, and network of supports) were adopted at the individual and household levels. However, positive and negative interactions were explored between resilience features at all levels. Low community-level resilience was not translated into a lack of household-level resilience, and strong individual-level resilience did not mean high household-level resilience. It was noted that the increased resilience of a particular individual or household could negatively affect community resilience. Resilience features showed inconsistent interactions within or among the three levels’ resilience features. The study also revealed that multilevel resilience features stressed the importance of combining persistence (i.e., keeping fishing as the main livelihood) and adaptation process (e.g., livelihood diversification). The study showcases the importance of considering multilevel resilience that offers insight into crucial resilience factors which would not be evident if only one level were studied. The overall finding of this study will contribute to framing governance strategies to ensure sustainable coastal management even in the time of any abrupt or expected changes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the fishing ban policy.

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Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban

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“…First, leaders can boost cognitive resilience through the HRM principle of developing partnerships with employees and providing them with decision-making power (Lengnick-Hall et al, 2011). To cope with ambiguity, disruption, and stress, employees must be able to comprehend, process, and convert external negative information into positive outcomes (Beasley et al, 2003; Choudhury et al, 2021). Despite uncertainty, employees also need to use their expertise, creativity, and decision-making capacity to think of innovative solutions (Lengnick-Hall et al, 2011; Santoro et al, 2021).…”

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Leading for Resilience: Fostering Employee and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms

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Muskat

Dassanayake

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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Grounded in conservation of resources (COR) theory, this study identifies the effect of leadership behaviors on the resilience of tourism firms and employees in Sri Lanka during the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis. The developed conceptual model links the resilient leadership behaviors of vision sharing, leadership of tasks, and management of change with employee resilience (cognitive, behavioral, and contextual) and organizational resilience (planned and adaptive). The findings highlight that resilient leadership behaviors in the early stages of the pandemic enhanced both employee and organizational resilience. The contextual and behavioral dimensions of employee resilience mediated the effect of resilient leadership behaviors on organizational resilience. The study offers suggestions for the development of organizational resilience and the specific support that may facilitate the recovery of the tourism sector from the COVID-19 crisis.

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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).…”

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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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Transformative learning and community resilience to cyclones and storm surges: The case of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Cited by 14 publications

References 50 publications

Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban

Multilevel Resilience of Fishing Communities of Coastal Bangladesh Against Covid-19 Pandemic and 65-Day Fishing Ban

Leading for Resilience: Fostering Employee and Organizational Resilience in Tourism Firms

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

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