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Artisan fishers’ perception of climate change and disasters in coastal Bangladesh

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  • Zaheed Hasan
  • Melissa Nursey-Bray

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Climate change is affecting fishing communities across Bangladesh. While work has been undertaken to investigate the nature of these impacts, understanding how fishers perceive climate change at a local level, especially within developing countries, is crucial. This paper presents the results of a three-year study of the contextual determinants and dimensions of artisanal fishing community perceptions about climate change in coastal Bangladesh. Results of this study indicate that geographic characteristics, socio-economic status, worldviews, tradition, observations and disaster experiences are important determinants for shaping fishers’ perceptions about climate change. Fishers also demonstrate a long-standing tradition of risk adaptation strategies, but do not link them to climate change. We argue that these perceptions provide ideas for how to form appropriate climate responses at local levels not only in Bangladesh but other developing countries.

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  • Zaheed Hasan & Melissa Nursey-Bray, 2018. "Artisan fishers’ perception of climate change and disasters in coastal Bangladesh," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(7), pages 1204-1223, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:61:y:2018:i:7:p:1204-1223
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2017.1339026
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    1. Jyun-Long Chen & Yao-Jen Hsiao & Kat-Kau Yip, 2021. "Risk Management of Marine Capture Fisheries under Climate Change: Taking into Consideration the Effects of Uncertainty," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-16, April.
    2. Mahfuza Begum & Muhammad Mehedi Masud & Lubna Alam & Mazlin Bin Mokhtar & Ahmad Aldrie Amir, 2022. "The Adaptation Behaviour of Marine Fishermen towards Climate Change and Food Security: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour and Health Belief Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-24, October.
    3. Shah Md Atiqul Haq & Khandaker Jafor Ahmed, 2020. "Perceptions about climate change among university students in Bangladesh," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 103(3), pages 3683-3713, September.
    4. Rodney Tatenda Muringai & Paramu Mafongoya & Romano Trent Lottering, 2022. "Climate Change Perceptions, Impacts and Adaptation Strategies: Insights of Fishers in Zambezi River Basin, Zimbabwe," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-19, March.
    5. Jyun-Long Chen, 2021. "Fishers’ perceptions and adaptation on climate change in northeastern Taiwan," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 611-634, January.

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