Risks, Vulnerabilities and Adaptations: Exploring the Impact of Salinity Intrusion on Women in Coastal Bangladesh

Journal of Sociology

Abstract

The article sheds light on the salinity-induced risks and vulnerabilities of women and adolescent girls living in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Moreover, it critically analyzes the adaptation actions of coastal women and teenage girls to salinity intrusion and connects the concepts to climate governance. The paper uses secondary textual analysis as its methodology, ecofeminism, and political ecology theory as the theoretical framework and thematic analysis strategy for secondary data analysis. The article incorporates Alston’s idea of radical adaptation to suggest placing gender equality as the core component of risk and vulnerability assessment of salinity intrusion, GO- NGO adaptation policies, and practices against salinization. Furthermore, this paper suggests taking context-specific and gendering-specific adaptation policies to increase the resilience power of coastal saline-prone marginal women and adolescent girls.

Keywords: Salinity, risk, vulnerability, adaptation, gender roles, climate governance.