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dc.contributor.authorRahman, M.
dc.contributor.authorPokrant, Bob
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:56:22Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:56:22Z
dc.date.created2015-07-16T06:21:55Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationRahman, M. and Pokrant, B. 2015. Changing local weather and adaptation in two coastal villages in Bangladesh. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. 11 (1): pp. 74-97.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36544
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19480881.2015.1019995
dc.description.abstract

Coastal Bangladesh is experiencing the effects of weather and climate-related stressors. The paper reports on the ways in which members of nine occupational groups in two coastal villages in South-west Bangladesh understand and respond differentially to recent changes in local weather and weather-related events and processes. Their understanding is grounded in local experiences and varied livelihood options, which are a complex interaction between people's social and spatial locations and local weather and non-weather events and processes. Their priorities are to protect livelihoods through resilience-building actions, which address proximate causes of vulnerability (improving coastal embankments, rehabilitating and strengthening homesteads, protecting agricultural land). Government support is limited to traditional development interventions that assist some more than others and often disconnected from local people's priorities. Most adaptation actions are practical measures within the prevailing politico-legal order. There is some evidence of more rights-based cooperative action between a national non-governmental organisation and local farmers that challenged aspects of that order.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectNGO
dc.subjectweather
dc.subjectadaptation
dc.titleChanging local weather and adaptation in two coastal villages in Bangladesh
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume11
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage24
dcterms.source.issn1948-0881
dcterms.source.titleJournal of the Indian Ocean Region
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The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19480881.2015.1019995

curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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