Tag: Publications
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RESILIENCE OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES: LESSONS FROM COVID-19
Executive Summary We provide a first assessment on how 15 local communities in the Global South are building resilience in the face of COVID-19. We found that communities used many different coping strategies, spanning multiple social domains of resilience, when responding to a crisis. Social domains of resilience not only imply communities having access to…
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Debt-for-Adaptation Swap – Investment in Adaptation and Resilience
Published by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Center for Sustainable Finance (SOAS, University of London), and Global Development Policy Center (Boston University) as Background Paper to the Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery Project [btn btnlink=”https://drgr.org/files/2020/12/Background-Paper-3.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Download This Background Paper[/btn] About The Author: Prof Dr Mizan R. Khan is currently Deputy Director…
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Previously unrecognized potential threat to children from manganese in groundwater in rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Abstract The forced displacement of over 700,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar to Bangladesh since the crackdown in August 2017 has resulted in a critical humanitarian and environmental crisis. Groundwater is the primary source of drinking water in the camps that were constructed to provide shelter for the refugee population. The current study explores occurrence of Mn…
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Water Security for Vulnerable Communities in Coastal Bangladesh in the Face of a Changing Climate
Impacts of climate change severely affect the water security of the communities in the south-west coastal region of Bangladesh. An action research conducted in two selected villages of Khulna in 2018 shed light on specific local water insecurities due to climatic and non-climatic factors, associated consequences on local communities and limitations of current coping strategies.…
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Contextualizing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities in Bangladesh (Mongla and Noapara) during March to May 2020. Due to restrictions during the prolonged lockdown, residents (in particular low-income groups) had limited access to livelihood…
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IntoAction Gibika
Securing livelihoods against climate change
Overview – Gibika | Securing livelihoods against climate change All key drivers of risk are present in Bangladesh: natural hazards, rapid urbanisation, demographic changes and poverty in many regions of the country. With Gibika the project partners aim to increase resilience of people affected by disasters and climate change and to secure livelihoods also during…
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Ethics as negotiated and emergent in a study of liveability in small cities
This Reflections Article published on SENTIO JOURNAL, Issue 2: Theory and Practice in Research Ethics [btn btnlink=”https://sentiojournal.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sentio_Issue_2_complete.pdf” btnsize=”medium” bgcolor=”#23840B” txtcolor=”#ffffff” btnnewt=”1″ nofollow=”1″]Article Link[/btn] Authors: Alexandra Halligey, Istikh Ahmed, M Feisal Rahman, Hanna A Ruszczyk and Sumaiya Binte Selim Sudha Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view…
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Sharing Adaptation Failure to Improve Adaptation Outcomes
Sharing lessons is critical for ensuring that finite funding for climate change adaptation is deployed in ways that provide the most value and impact. Successes are celebrated, but failures are habitually obscured, leaving a major knowledge base untapped. This commentary calls for the urgent sharing of failures as a source of critical learning. [btn btnlink=”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.002″…
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Rethinking Nature: A Pathway towards Sustainable Development?
Nature and people are closely interconnected but our current approaches and actions to speed up economic growth are harming nature. Rapid industrialization, unplanned urbanization, and excessive resource utilization are rapidly changing the quality of our ecosystems and, of course, changing our climate. To ensure sustainable, healthy societies we need to learn from nature and incorporate…
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A Roadmap for Nature-based Solutions in Bangladesh: Promises and Challenges
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are receiving international attention for helping us to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, whilst protecting biodiversity and supporting sustainable development. As such, NbS provide a way to enable economic development without ecosystem loss or damage. Bangladesh has a long history of implementing NbS but has faced challenges due…
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Changing dynamics of livelihood dependence on ecosystem services at temporal and spatial scales: An assessment in the southern wetland areas of Bangladesh
Highlights • Rural livelihoods are intrinsically connected with seasonal climate fluctuations. • Rural livelihoods get more economic benefits from the local ecosystem services (ES) during monsoon and post-monsoon months. • Livelihoods of ES dependent are vulnerable in the pre-monsoon season. • Communities are increasingly diversifying their livelihood strategies to non-ES sectors. • Non-ES dependent livelihoods…
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Ensuring Livelihood Security for Climate Vulnerable Communities in Coastal Bangladesh
Impacts of climate change severely affect the livelihood security of the communities in the south-west coastal region of Bangladesh. An action research conducted in two selected villages of Khulna in 2018 shed light on specific local vulnerabilities to livelihood, its consequences on local communities and limitations of current coping strategies in the view of a…