Explaining mobility using the Community Capital Framework and Place Attachment concepts: A case study of riverbank erosion in the Lower Meghna Estuary, Bangladesh
Explaining mobility using the Community Capital Framework and Place Attachment concepts: A case study of riverbank erosion in the Lower Meghna Estuary, Bangladesh
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10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102199
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发表时间：
2020-12
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4.9
通讯作者：
Bimal Kanti Paul;M. Rahman;T. Crawford;S. Curtis;M. G. Miah;M. Rafiqul Islam;Md Sariful Islam
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作者：
Bimal Kanti Paul;M. Rahman;T. Crawford;S. Curtis;M. G. Miah;M. Rafiqul Islam;Md Sariful Islam
从孟加拉国Lakshmipur区Ramgati Upazilla的焦点小组会议和关键线人访谈中收集的信息显示，一旦家庭成员因河岸侵蚀而失去家园，他们很少迁移到遥远的地方，并留在附近。绝大多数受害者在亲戚、朋友和邻居的土地上重建家园，而一些人则在政府财产上重建家园。这一行动是用社区资本框架（CCF）和地方依恋或地方感的概念来解释的。国家合作框架认为，灾害面前的整体复原力来自于关注在面临危险之前在多个层面上的资产，如人力、社会、政治、金融、建筑、自然和文化资本。这些资本资产相互重叠。例如，丰富的自然资本可以很容易地转化为金融资本，如果有政治资本来管理资源，金融资本反过来又会创造出一套强大的建设资本。研究地区的流离失所者倾向于留在当地，因为他们与周围社区有着密切的联系，并且拥有丰富的自然资源，有可能重建以河流为基础的生计，获得新鲜和不含福尔马林的鱼类和蔬菜，呼吸纯净的空气。众所周知，当地人慷慨地提供免费土地用于建造房屋，流离失所的家庭经常获得地方和国家政府的财政支持。所有这些资源都与当地有着密切的联系，因此幸存者不愿意搬到遥远的未知地方。
Information collected from Focus Group Meetings (FGMs) and key informant interviews (KIIs) from Ramgati Upazilla of Lakshmipur District, Bangladesh, shows that once household members have lost their homes to riverbank erosion, they rarely migrate to distant places and stay in their immediate vicinity. The overwhelming majority of the victims rebuild their homes in nearby places on the lands of their relatives, friends, and neighbors, while some rebuild homes on government properties. This action is explained using the Community Capital Framework (CCF) and Place Attachment or Sense of Place concepts. The CCF asserts that overall resilience in the face of a disaster comes from focusing on the assets in place prior to the exposure to danger across multiple dimensions such as human, social, political, financial, built, natural, and cultural capitals. These capital assets overlap each other. For example, abundant natural capital can easily translate into financial capital, which, in turn, creates a strong set of built capital, if there is political capital to administer resources. The displaced people in the study area tend to remain in the local area because of strong ties to the surrounding communities and abundant natural resources in terms of availability of potential to re-establish river-based livelihoods, access fresh and formalin free fish and vegetables, and breathe pure air. Local people are known to generously provide free land for building homes, and displaced households often receive financial support from local and national governments. All these resources make for strong ties to the locality, and therefore survivors hesitate to move to distant unknown places.