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Senior Climate Resilience Expert with 19+ years’ experience driving climate programmes, policy, research, advocacy, and partnerships. Extensive in-country project management in the Global South, built through direct experience living and working in climate-affected communities. Proven success in delivering evidence-based, locally-led, inclusive climate solutions with and for impoverished communities in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America.
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Resilience is increasingly becoming the new buzz word. This paper examines the utility of the concept of resilience for understanding the gendered experiences of women to climate stress, through case study research in Southwest Bangladesh. It provides evidence that resilience, as commonly understood, is inadequate for understanding the intersecting...
Microcredit has become a component of global development. Recently, the climate change and disaster community have proposed that it may be able to facilitate climate change adaptation, but whether this is the case remains under-researched. Addressing this gap, this paper examines the question in relation to microcredit's ability to support adaptati...
Perceptions of climate change play a critical role in determining the degree to which people are at risk throughout the world. The significance of culture in understanding why people perceive and respond to climate change in particular ways is largely ignored in mainstream climate change adaptation. This paper applies a critical realist approach to...
This paper reflects on my experience of using personal stories to
create a Pot Gan performance exploring the complexity of how
lives are lived, how the experience of climate change is shaped by
poverty and struggle, but also strength in facing adversity.
Bringing real stories to the stage had more meaning, emotion and
personal connection for audien...
With climate change causing loss and damage, disrupting nature, and affecting the lives of billions of people, the world has accepted that it cannot achieve carbon dioxide reduction goals without phasing out coal. This paper argues that addressing the broader social dimensions of coal transitions is crucial for success and offers benefits and oppor...
Climate change is likely to exacerbate gendered vulnerabilities and compound intersecting forms of discrimination against women. International donors and policymakers are increasingly interested in strengthening social protection programmes to address such adverse impacts, but there is a lack of evidence about how this can be achieved. Addressing t...
Perceptions of climate change play a critical role in determining how at-risk people are. The significance of culture for understanding why people perceive and respond to climate change in particular ways is largely ignored in mainstream climate change adaptation. This paper applies a critical realist approach to examine the socio-cultural structur...
This paper aims to understand how environmental stressors influence people's livelihood options in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. We argue that environmental stressors such as cyclones, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, and floods have negative impacts on people's lives by reducing their livelihood options. Twelve in-depth interviews (Livelih...
This teaching resource investigates the impact of climate change on urban areas, focusing on the real-life stories of families living in informal settlements in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. Using videos, powerful images and comprehensive background information, students can explore the impact of climate change on low-income families and understand...
There has been increasing examination of resilience as a concept applicable to climate adaptation. In this paper, resilience is used to explore the layers of responses to past and present climate stress. It examines the factors and circumstances that may hinder or enhance resilience, providing insights into past and present adaptation processes tha...
Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and has attracted concerted, but inadequate attention from the international community. This thesis’ overarching aim is to contribute to the understanding of how individuals, households and communities cope with, and adapt to, climate stress. The concept of resilienc...
