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.
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Canal Fishery workshop
In September 2024, our ENGAGE4Sundarbans team organised a workshop at Kumirmari Bari with local stakeholders to investigate the possibilities of using canals as fisheries, to upscale our pond experiments. The participation of multiple local stakeholders opened the...
ENGAGE Regional Workshop in Kolkata
In September 2024, the ENGAGE4Sundarbans regional workshop aimed to join together our team members from India from IIT Kharagpur and the SJM village community, Bangladesh teams from SAJIDA Foundation and ULAB, and Switzerland UNIL, and exchange around our project with...
Gobeshona Session: Building resilience
"The Gobeshona Global Conference 4 - March 2024 The 4th Annual Gobeshona Global Conference took place on 1st March to 8th March 2024, virtually by International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). The conference provided the opportunity to bring...
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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