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Beyond Embankments: How Sundarbans Communities Cope and What Holds Them Back
Md. Ruyel Miah, Amitrajit Chakraborty, Danielle Denwood, Ghazal Khodadadizadeh, and Mary Buckman
"Local communities argue that the compensation for household relocation is often limited to none. This has not only slowed embankment construction across the villages but also deepened distrust between the governing agencies and local communities. This reveals that a well-intentioned project can exacerbate dispossession when imposed without community co-design."
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Whose Knowledge Counts? Rethinking Adaptation in Coastal Ghana
Md. Ruyel Miah, Danielle Denwood, Dorothy Lukhabi, and Michaela Hynie
"A major drawback of the sea defence system has been the displacement and dispossession of several coastal communities, leading to further social consequences. This includes family instability, trauma from frequent relocations, poverty due to loss of livelihoods, and increased teenage pregnancies linked to overcrowding and insecurity."
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Between Salt and Concrete: The Uneasy Promise of Adaptation in Coastal Bangladesh
Md. Ruyel Miah, Tahura Farbin, Mary Buckman, Danielle Denwood, and Michaela Hynie
"… that we move away from short-term project-based approaches toward long-term programmatic approaches that better involve communities and allow them to internalize adaptations for sustainable outcomes."
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When “Protection” Turns into a New Threat
Linda Bana, Dorothy Lukhabi and Richard Adade
"By fixing one “problem” segment in concrete, the sea defence altered natural sediment flows and wave dynamics, sacrificing adjacent communities that had previously been relatively safe. People there are now losing land, homes and livelihoods not only to climate change and natural erosion, but to someone else’s adaptation decision."
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Linda Bana, Dorothy Lukhabi and Richard Adade
"They built it to protect some of us — but look what happened to the next community down. We lost our backyard and our store of smoked fish.”
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Beyond the Mega-Dike: What Cagayan de Oro Teaches Us About Climate Change Adaptation and Maladaptation
Chona R. Echavez, Albert Salamanca, Corey Ranford-Robinson, and Leah Wilfreda Pilongo
"... adaptation actions should not only promote and safeguard infrastructure but also empower individuals and enhance their adaptive capacities and climate resilience. More importantly, these actions must reduce vulnerability and do not create new ones. They should also be fair, just, and effective."
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Identifying Research Sites for Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession, and Displacement (CiCADD) Project in Northern Mindanao and Caraga, Philippines
Chona R. Echavez, Corey Ranford-Robinson, Albert Salamanca, and Leah Wilfreda Pilongo
"In mapping the relationship between climate change adaptation, displacement, and dispossession, the team concentrated on the socio-political context surrounding climate change adaptation efforts. They traced narratives—complex and urgent to examine further, ideally with input from local communities, to collaboratively find solutions."
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