Social resilience in the Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

The inhabitants of the tidally active lower deltaic plain of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin adjacent to the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in India and Bangladesh are highly exposed to multiple risks, including cyclones, salinization, pandemics, and socioeconomic marginalization.

While exposure to these hazards has built local resilience and relevant knowledge to interact within this particular social-ecological system, climate change and state interventions represent ongoing challenges for local communities.

THE PROJECT

The project “Social resilience in the Sundarbans” aims at understanding plural accounts and interpretations of the Sundarbans’ ‘riskscape’ produced by state and non-governmental actors and diverse members of the local communities. It seeks to support situated adaptive practices that enhance social resilience through experiments in inland fishing and integrated farming based on transdisciplinary engagement across the political boundaries of the Sundarbans.

AGRO-ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

Recent News & Events

ENGAGE team at UNIL

ENGAGE team at UNIL

Wednesday, 19th of March 2025, 4 pm to 5.30 pm: UNIL Room 1620, Geopolis Open event  Conference at UNIL Geopolis The conference is open to the public The event will be followed by a small “Apéro” Location: Auditorium 1620, Geopolis, UNIL Mouline, 70 seats. The event...

Seminar at the DDC in Bern

Seminar at the DDC in Bern

Tuesday 18th of March 2025 12 pm to 1.30 pm: Seminar at SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) in Bern, Eichenweg 5 3003 Bern-Zollikofen SOR4D Seminar “Resilience in the Sundarbans” Tuesday 18th of March 2025, 12 pm to 1.30 pm, Room Nil 1, SDC, Eichenweg...

Scaling up Experiments

Scaling up Experiments

"Scaling up co-developed experimentations and Solutions for sustainability".  on Monday, 17th of March (10 am-3 pm) at UNIL, Geopolis, Room 2238 Geopolis Two SOR4D projects ENGAGE4Sundarbans and the SCALAGRO team members will join for a workshop to reflect on the...

While the conventional approach of climate change adaptation in the Sundarbans relies on top-down technical solutions and the managed relocation of communities, our ‘living lab’ experimentations build on existing situated adaptive practices with the goals to enhance social resilience, reduce multiple risks and provide alternatives to outmigration.

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