Author: Shitangsu Kumar Paul
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss. no.RD-10-05
Year: 2010
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2010
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Gopal B. Thapa, Rajendra Prasad Shrestha, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: This research aims to explore people’s response and coping strategies to cyclones and storm surges along with their regular livelihood strategies. It compares how community livelihood practices, coping behaviours vary in response to cyclone exposure and intensity across locations, and demographic, socio-economic and external factors. It also examines the role of different institutions for disaster risk reduction, coping and livelihood rebuilding, and assesses post disaster livelihood security outcomes of vulnerable coastal communities considering the impacts of cyclone and storm surges. The study is conducted in three villages, selected purposively in the central coast of Bangladesh, which are severely vulnerable to cyclones and storm surges. The assumption of a 95 per cent confidence interval resulted in an estimated sample size of 331 out of 788 households, chosen through a simple random sampling procedure. Key informants interview, focus group discussions and household surveys are applied for primary data gathering while secondary data are collected from relevant published and unpublished sources. Relevant statistical techniques have been used for both quantitative and qualitative data analysis. This study has identified that major livelihood groups are fisher, farmer and wage laborer in all three villages. Fisher is the dominant livelihood group in Island and Shoreline villages, farmers are the majority in Inland village, while the fish fry collector is the most destitute and disadvantageous sub-group of fisher mostly found in Island and Shoreline villages. Wage laborers are relatively less in Island and Shoreline villages than Inland. In response to cyclone and storm surge, commonly people have various indigenous coping strategies following the sequences of before the occurrence of cyclone, during cyclone, and post cyclon
Scholarship Donor(s): Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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