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

• Main Author: Roy, Sajal (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace, 29
• Subjects: Environmental sociology.; Applied sociology.; Women.; Sustainable development.; Forestry management.; Women in development.; Environmental Sociology.; Social/Human Development Studies.; Women's Studies.; Sustainable Development.; Forestry Management.; Development and Gender.
• Physical Description: XIII, 101 p. 10 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789811367762
• ISSN: 2193-3162 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6776-2

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 book explores gendered activities in the forest, especially women's interaction with the forest resources. The findings present a clear picture of the Shora community's local knowledge about the Sundarbans Forest, as well as the ecological and economic contributions for the forest people. The book makes a timely contribution to the wider study of gender, post-cyclone recovery, ecology and resilience.