Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment
Local contexts as well as levels of exposure play a substantial role in defining a community’s perception of climate and environmental vulnerabilities. In order to assess a community’s adaptation strategies, understanding of how different groups in that community comprehend climate change is crucial...
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| description | Local contexts as well as levels of exposure play a substantial role in defining a community’s perception of climate and environmental vulnerabilities. In order to assess a community’s adaptation strategies, understanding of how different groups in that community comprehend climate change is crucial. Public risk perception is important as it can induce or confine political, economic, and social actions dealing with particular hazards. Climate change adaptation is a well-established policy discourse in Bangladesh that has made its people more or less aware of it. Similarly, shrimp-farming communities in southwestern Bangladesh understand environmental and climate change in their own ways. In order to understand how the shrimp-farming communities in coastal Bangladesh perceive current climate instabilities, we conducted a qualitative study in shrimp-farming villages in coastal Bangladesh where about 80% of commercial shrimp of the country is cultivated. We compared farmers’ perceptions of local climate change with existing scientific knowledge and found remarkable similarities. Our assessment shows that at least two factors are critical for this outcome: coastal people’s exposure to and experience of frequent climate extremes; and a radical approach to defining climate regimes in Bangladesh by various stakeholders and the media, depicting anthropogenic global warming as a certainty for the country. Thus, a convergence of scientific construct and sociocultural construct construes the level of awareness of the general public about climate change. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1058172019-12-10T14:56:11Z Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment Shaikh Mohammad Kais Md Saidul Islam School of Social Sciences Radical Approach Popular Discourse of Climate Change DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology Local contexts as well as levels of exposure play a substantial role in defining a community’s perception of climate and environmental vulnerabilities. In order to assess a community’s adaptation strategies, understanding of how different groups in that community comprehend climate change is crucial. Public risk perception is important as it can induce or confine political, economic, and social actions dealing with particular hazards. Climate change adaptation is a well-established policy discourse in Bangladesh that has made its people more or less aware of it. Similarly, shrimp-farming communities in southwestern Bangladesh understand environmental and climate change in their own ways. In order to understand how the shrimp-farming communities in coastal Bangladesh perceive current climate instabilities, we conducted a qualitative study in shrimp-farming villages in coastal Bangladesh where about 80% of commercial shrimp of the country is cultivated. We compared farmers’ perceptions of local climate change with existing scientific knowledge and found remarkable similarities. Our assessment shows that at least two factors are critical for this outcome: coastal people’s exposure to and experience of frequent climate extremes; and a radical approach to defining climate regimes in Bangladesh by various stakeholders and the media, depicting anthropogenic global warming as a certainty for the country. Thus, a convergence of scientific construct and sociocultural construct construes the level of awareness of the general public about climate change. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Published version 2019-06-14T06:00:35Z 2019-12-06T21:58:33Z 2019-06-14T06:00:35Z 2019-12-06T21:58:33Z 2019 Journal Article Shaikh Mohammad Kais, & Md Saidul Islam. (2019). Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(4), 672-. doi:10.3390/ijerph16040672 1661-7827 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105817 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48761 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040672 en International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health © 2019 The Author(s). Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 12 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Radical Approach Popular Discourse of Climate Change DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology Shaikh Mohammad Kais Md Saidul Islam Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment |
| title | Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment |
| title_full | Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment |
| title_fullStr | Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment |
| title_short | Perception of climate change in shrimp-farming communities in Bangladesh : a critical assessment |
| title_sort | perception of climate change in shrimp farming communities in bangladesh a critical assessment |
| topic | Radical Approach Popular Discourse of Climate Change DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology |
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