Salt is killing us: Salinity and livelihood in a Bangladesh village
(2010) SIMT31 20091Master of Science in Development Studies
Graduate School
Social Anthropology
- Abstract
- This thesis is the result of a minor field work in a coastal Bangladesh village where peoples are struggling to adapt with salt water intrusion. It describes how people in one community under climatic change or variability adapt to an acute problem, and how their perceptions of that environment, their Ethnoecology influence this response. To make sense my primary and secondary data I have used adaptation theories of
anthropology more specifically how people respond to changing environment
regard to livelihood. The perceptions on salinity, livelihood adaptation
strategies, politics of adaptation and how their culture and nature are shaped by each other are developed in the body of this dissertation. The study encompasses theoretically in... (More) - This thesis is the result of a minor field work in a coastal Bangladesh village where peoples are struggling to adapt with salt water intrusion. It describes how people in one community under climatic change or variability adapt to an acute problem, and how their perceptions of that environment, their Ethnoecology influence this response. To make sense my primary and secondary data I have used adaptation theories of
anthropology more specifically how people respond to changing environment
regard to livelihood. The perceptions on salinity, livelihood adaptation
strategies, politics of adaptation and how their culture and nature are shaped by each other are developed in the body of this dissertation. The study encompasses theoretically in a broad sense Ecological Anthropology and specifically cultural ecology and practically addresses adaptation to climate change impacts, a growing field in Anthropology known as 'Anthropology of Climate change'. (Less)
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- author
- Rahman, Ashiqur LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMT31 20091
- year
- 2010
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Salinity, Livelihood adaptation, Climate change, Bangladesh, Ethnoecology
- language
- English
- additional info
- As part of digging deeper I'd like to do my PhD on the same or related issue broadly covers human dimension of climate change in the context of Bangladesh.
- id
- 1529179
- date added to LUP
- 2010-02-11 12:00:58
- date last changed
- 2014-06-10 10:01:34
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