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: Received: 18 May 2021 / Approved: 20 May 2021 / Online: 20 May 2021 (10:23:39 CEST)
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Hassan, M.S.; Mahmud-ul-Islam, S.; Rahman, M.M.; Eslamian, S. Perception of Vulnerable Ultra-Poor Women on Climate Change Impacts and Local Adaptation in a High Flood Prone Area of Bangladesh. Preprints2021, 2021050475. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0475.v1
Hassan, M.S.; Mahmud-ul-Islam, S.; Rahman, M.M.; Eslamian, S. Perception of Vulnerable Ultra-Poor Women on Climate Change Impacts and Local Adaptation in a High Flood Prone Area of Bangladesh. Preprints 2021, 2021050475. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0475.v1
Hassan, M.S.; Mahmud-ul-Islam, S.; Rahman, M.M.; Eslamian, S. Perception of Vulnerable Ultra-Poor Women on Climate Change Impacts and Local Adaptation in a High Flood Prone Area of Bangladesh. Preprints2021, 2021050475. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0475.v1
APA Style
Hassan, M.S., Mahmud-ul-Islam, S., Rahman, M.M., & Eslamian, S. (2021). Perception of Vulnerable Ultra-Poor Women on Climate Change Impacts and Local Adaptation in a High Flood Prone Area of Bangladesh. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0475.v1
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Hassan, M.S., Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman and Saeid Eslamian. 2021 "Perception of Vulnerable Ultra-Poor Women on Climate Change Impacts and Local Adaptation in a High Flood Prone Area of Bangladesh" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202105.0475.v1
Abstract
The contextual and risk perception of climate change plays a critical role in an individual’s decision-making process. It could also help people to respond appropriately to the consequences of global climate change and eventually take necessary adaptation actions. However, the perceptions of climate change are often gendered and vary among men and women. Therefore, this study explores different perceptions of climate change and its local adaptation options among ultra-poor vulnerable women, particularly in highly vulnerable flood-prone regions of Bangladesh. The research followed an empirical research methodology to collect primary and secondary information using qualitative and quantitative research tools. The study findings reveal that climate change perceptions at the individual level are relatively low (63%). Still, they have been observing significant changes in various climatic variables over the past 30 years. Moreover, this study identified some major adaptation options such as plinth raising (100%), livestock rearing (100%), homestead gardening (82%), seasonal migration (82%), and using indigenous knowledge (69%), and so on to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change-induced extreme events including flooding at the local level. For implementing these adaptation measures, the respondents spent a significant amount of financial resources from individual sources in the study area. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used in addition to the statistical analyses to understand any connections between the climate change perceptions and other variables associated with the community under study. The SEM result shows that climate change will be a long–term problem, which offers a strong predictor in this model, considering standardized regression weight β= 0.56. It means, despite inadequate knowledge on climate change of the respondent’s, climate change is occurring and becoming the worst factor limiting cultural, economic, and environmental development in the study area.
Keywords
Climate change, vulnerable women, perception, adaptation, Bangladesh, high flood
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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