Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Risk: A Case Study of Climate Change and Flooding in Bangladesh

By Roy Brouwer, Sonia Akter, Luke Brander, E. Haque. Risk Analysis, 2007

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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The poverty–vulnerability–resilience nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh (2013, background): “12 the links among poverty, sensitivity, exposure, response and adaptive capacity, i.e. the poor are more vulnerable (according to both narrow and broad definitions of vulnerability) and less prepared (Brouwer et al., 2007).”
Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts (2015, background): “For example, after the 2004 floods in Bangladesh, poor households affected by the flood lost more than twice as much of their total income as non-poor households (Brouwer et al., 2007).”
Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta (2013, background): “At the household level, access to agricultural land, diversity of income sources, and good housing quality create essential resources for households to cope with annual flood events in Bangladesh and climate change in the coastal province of Vietnam (Adger 1999, Brouwer et al. 2007).”
The psychological impacts of global climate change. (2011, background): “There are clear relationships between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability: Paradoxically, the people that face the highest risk of impacts are the least well prepared, both in terms of individual preparedness and community-level resources for disaster relief (Brouwer et al., 2007).”
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change (2018, background): “In contrast, Bangladesh is one of the most corrupt and poorly governed countries in the world.8 Floods primarily affect the poor, who live in the river and coastal flats where land is cheap (Brouwer et al. 2007).”
Social vulnerability to floods: Review of case studies and implications for measurement (2015, background): “As a result, the coping capacity of wealthier households remains greater than poorer households [20].”