Time for change: Assessing the transformational capacity of riverine Bangladesh

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/96201 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/96201 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/96201 archive 353 disk0/00/01/76/63 2021-11-25 08:06:42 2022-04-01 10:35:39 2021-11-25 08:06:42 monograph show 1 Paszkowski A. 9390 Time for change: Assessing the transformational capacity of riverine Bangladesh pub ASA prog_ysp Riverine Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone and poverty-stricken regions of the world. Existing management of riverine hazards has predominantly focused on incremental adaptation; however, given the profundity and inevitability of projected vulnerabilities, incremental adaptation is increasingly considered insufficient to address disaster risks. Consequently, deliberate and anticipatory transformation is gaining traction as a response for avoiding dangerous thresholds of intolerable risks through planned changes in location and/or livelihoods. This study assesses the capacity for such deliberate transformation for 35 critically poor and flood-prone riverine communities in Bangladesh through the application of a transformational capacity framework onto community-level resilience data. The results show that overall transformational capacity is low across all 35 communities, with a lack of community organisation, flexibility, and a low sense of agency and political voice acting as the main barriers. Critically, eight key communities are identified as priority areas that require urgent capacity building to avoid imminent forced, catastrophe-driven relocation. Overall, the findings presented in this study bring communities’ realities and values to the fore, which, when ignored, hinder operationalising longer-term resilience across riverine Bangladesh. It is imperative that the potential for positive transformational change is incorporated into planned adaptation options and policies for Bangladesh, as they provide windows of opportunity to avoid perpetual risk traps and stakeholder conflict, and enable the development of innovative and collaborative ways for social and ecological resilience, and longer-term ethical and sustainable societal systems. 2021-11-25 published IIASA 3329 public yssp Laxenburg, Austria no info:eu-repo/semantics/book