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21. Grassroots Technologies and Community Trust in Climate Change Adaptation: Learning from Coastal Settlements of Bangladesh

verfasst von : Momtaj Bintay Khalil, Brent C. Jacobs, Natasha Kuruppu

Erschienen in: Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation

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This paper reports doctoral research that explores grassroots technologies as an asset for poor coastal communities of Bangladesh, how local knowledge contributes to the creation of such technologies, and how they can be useful to build a community’s trust in its own adaptive capacity. Bangladesh is one of the most disaster vulnerable countries in the world due to its deltaic morphology and frequent climate-induced hazards (storm surge, annual flooding, salinity intrusion, frequent cyclones, etc.). Southwestern coastal settlements are especially vulnerable because people considered among the poorest in the world inhabit them. To cope with climate extremes under severe resource limitations, grassroots technologies evolve over generations from autonomous decision-making processes and creative experimentation. However, communities often fail to recognize the value of these technologies and may have little trust in their innate capacity for climate change adaptation.

A conceptual framework will be presented that identifies the interactions among grassroots technology, local knowledge, community trust and climate change adaptation. The framework will be validated in case studies of specific grassroots technologies identified through field observations, and explored through qualitative methods to understand the importance of indigenous knowledge to the development of community-based climate coping strategies.

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The long coastline covers an area about 47,201 km² (Karim and Mimura 2008).

0.3 m Sea Level rise would increase 22.7 % depth of flooding and will flooded 20 km from the coastline and 5690 km² is a High Risk Zone (HRZ) (Karim and Mimura 2008).

Coastal zone of Bangladesh comprises distinctive problems and prospects but relatively income-poor in comparison with rest of the country (Rashid 2014).

Saline-tolerant crops like coconut, guava, plum, corn meal, tamarind, cabbage, celery, basil, bindweed, spinach and paddies like bina-9, bina-10 are suitable as salinity intrusion in Gabura after cyclone Aila.

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Titel: Grassroots Technologies and Community Trust in Climate Change Adaptation: Learning from Coastal Settlements of Bangladesh
verfasst von: Momtaj Bintay Khalil
Brent C. Jacobs
Natasha Kuruppu
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25812-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25814-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25814-0_21

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