Emergence of Human Resilience in Coastal Ecosystems under Environmental Change

This research paper examines human resilience in the coastal ecosystems of the Sundarbans in southwest Bangladesh following Cyclone Aila in May 2009, proposing a synthesis of developmental, ecological, and family systems theory to bridge gaps between psychosocial and social-ecological approaches.

• The authors identify a gap in existing research where psychosocial traditions focus on the family and immediate surroundings, while social-ecological approaches focus on macro-systems that stop at the family level, noting that a synthesis integrating multiple dynamic systems across levels is 'strikingly rare'.
• Using a combination of Antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale and narrative inquiry to study the Sundarbans region after the May 2009 Cyclone Aila, the study concludes that human resilience is a 'holistic and dynamic process' driven by complex interactions between variables.
• The research employed quantitative analysis to examine the dimensions of individual resilience regarding livelihood, education, and gender, while utilizing life history narratives to uncover the social-ecological interactions and processes that shape human resilience.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2015). Emergence of Human Resilience in Coastal Ecosystems under Environmental Change. https://www.sei.org/publications/emergence-of-human-resilience-in-coastal-ecosystems-under-environmental-change/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Emergence of Human Resilience in Coastal Ecosystems under Environmental Change. 2015. https://www.sei.org/publications/emergence-of-human-resilience-in-coastal-ecosystems-under-environmental-change/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2015emergence, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Emergence of Human Resilience in Coastal Ecosystems under Environmental Change}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2015}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/emergence-of-human-resilience-in-coastal-ecosystems-under-environmental-change/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }