Local perspectives on livelihood risks in the Sundarbans mangroves, Bangladesh
| dc.creator | Subroto, S., Davidsen, C. | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:57:34Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:57:34Z | |
| dc.date | 2022 | |
| dc.date | 2023-02-23T06:06:39.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T21:00:56Z | |
| dc.description | 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. ID: 3623347 | |
| dc.format | 9p. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CC1666EN | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/cc1666en/cc1666en.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/210931 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | FAO ; | |
| dc.rights | Non-FAO | |
| dc.title | Local perspectives on livelihood risks in the Sundarbans mangroves, Bangladesh | |
| dc.title | XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022 | |
| dc.type | Article |