Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh Socio-environmental Struggle of the Shora Forest Community in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr). Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Shora, a rural village in southern Satkhira, Bangladesh, the boo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roy, Sajal
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Sundarbans Forest and the Gendered Context of Cyclones Aila and Sidr
  • Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches: Gendered Knowledge in Forest, Ecology and Environment
  • Chapter 3. Methods and Methodology
  • Chapter 4. Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora
  • Chapter 5. Women’s perceptions of and behaviours toward the Sundarbans forest
  • Chapter 6. Survival at Shora: Ecological Security and the Sundarbans Forest
  • Chapter 7. Implications of the gendered knowledge about the Sundarbans Forest at Shora and beyond