Local perspectives on livelihood risks in the Sundarbans mangroves, Bangladesh
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The Sundarbans mangrove forest is a challenging place to make a living with violent flooding and storms, tiger attacks, pirates, and underlying historical conflict between local social-cultural practices and top-down governance interventions. This research presents a livelihoods assessment from a local perspective to critically understand the Sundarbans’s everyday livelihood realities and sustainability concerns with an emphasis on local livelihood stressors, vulnerabilities, and coping mechanisms. The study is based on a participatory qualitative approach with exploratory case study design, and field data was collected from four local and indigenous villages in the south-western region of the Bangladesh Sundarbans. It
identifies and compares different sources of risk, including seasonal resource-related harvesting, wildlife-related conflicts, social and political livelihood concerns, and presents local data on livelihood capitals available in response. Beyond exposure to climate change-induced stressors, the local population identified significant concerns about access to non-seasonal cash income linked to direct economic security, alternative livelihood, and resilience options such as non-forest-based income diversification, future investment and education, and surviving seasons of hardship through savings. Lack of savings and formal credit sources are locally further as a significant livelihood concern with effects on household risk management capacity, local livelihood resiliency, socio-economic adaptation, and sustainability.
Keywords: Forest governance, livelihood capital, poverty, credit, vulnerability.
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