Socioeconomic vulnerability and adaptation to environmental risk: a case study of climate change and flooding in Bangladesh

R Brouwer, S Akter, L Brander… - Risk Analysis: An …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty,
and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood‐prone
countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive
coping mechanisms. Based upon the steadily growing amount of literature in this field we
develop and test our own analytical model. In a large‐scale household survey carried out in
southeast Bangladesh, we ask almost 700 floodplain residents living without any flood …

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R Brouwer, S Aftab, L Brander - A case study of climate change and …, 2006 - academia.edu
In this paper we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty
and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood prone
countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive
coping mechanisms. Based upon the steadily growing amount of literature in this field we
develop and test our own analytical model. In a large-scale household survey carried out in
the south-east of Bangladesh, we ask almost seven hundred floodplain residents living …
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