Rethinking Climate Resilience in Inland Fishing Communities

A qualitative study in Kurigram, Bangladesh, finds that intersecting factors of marginalization and inequality make women fisherfolk particularly vulnerable to climate change. The research highlights that elite capture of inland fisheries by wealthy men restricts access to beels and erodes traditional ecological knowledge. The authors argue that current gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction efforts are insufficient and advocate for a shift toward transformative resilience and bottom-up fisheries governance.

• Women fisherfolk experience higher vulnerability to climate change due to the interaction of complex, intersecting factors that compound their marginalization and inequality.
• Wealthy and powerful men engage in elite capture of inland fisheries and harmful fishing practices, which restricts access to beels and destroys the traditional ecological knowledge necessary for sustaining social-ecological systems.
• Existing disaster risk reduction and resilience initiatives are typically only gender-sensitive or gender-responsive, which is insufficient for long-term sustainability; instead, a shift toward transformative resilience and bottom-up governance is required.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2026). Rethinking Climate Resilience in Inland Fishing Communities. https://www.sei.org/publications/rethinking-climate-resilience-inland-fishing-communities/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Rethinking Climate Resilience in Inland Fishing Communities. 2026. https://www.sei.org/publications/rethinking-climate-resilience-inland-fishing-communities/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2026rethinking, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Rethinking Climate Resilience in Inland Fishing Communities}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2026}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/rethinking-climate-resilience-inland-fishing-communities/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }