Assessing Riverbank Erosion and Livelihood Resilience Using Traditional Approaches in Northern Bangladesh

Mamun, Abdullah Al; Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul; Alam, Edris; Chandra Pal, Subodh; Alam, G. M. Monirul

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Assessing Riverbank Erosion and Livelihood Resilience Using Traditional Approaches in Northern Bangladesh

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Mamun, Abdullah Al, Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul, Alam, Edris, Chandra Pal, Subodh, Alam, G. M. Monirul·2022·Sustainability

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Bangladesh is a riverine country that is the most climate-change-vulnerable country in the world. Riverbank erosion adversely affects people and their livelihoods by damaging their homesteads, agricultural land, and causing economic, social, and psychological distress over time. Under these criteria, erosion control measures/approaches are vital for protecting erosion and crating livelihoods resilient. This study intends to assess riverbank erosion and livelihood resilience using traditional erosion control approaches by observing and surveying 118 riverine households in Rowmari, northern Bangladesh. The results show that riverbank erosion enormously damages household lands, socio-economic conditions, livelihoods, and resources, resulting in increased vulnerability. About 54.2% of the households utilize traditional approaches known as bundlings and 33.1% use both bundlings + bank vegetation that helps them resist erosion. Traditional erosion management approaches enhance resilience by safeguarding agricultural land, crop fields, production, and homesteads rapidly and sustainably, and by reducing damage to infrastructure, roads, embankments and transportation in the region. A probit model was also employed to explore factors that have influenced traditional erosion approaches. The factors such as age, education, family size, erosion experience, occupation, earning members, and farm size were meaningfully related to taking traditional erosion approaches. It is expected that the outcomes of the present research will help guide governmental agencies and policymakers and contribute to the construction of a sustainable riverbank erosion action framework in Bangladesh and other regions with similar problems.

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Comparable household-level adaptation is barely possible for erosion except for deconstructing and shifting one's house shortly before erosion, a widespread strategy along the Jamuna.
“Comparable household level adaptation is barely possible for erosion except for deconstructing and shifting one’s house shortly before it gets eroded—a widespread adaptation strategy along the Jamuna (Hutton & Haque, 2004; Mamun et al., 2022; Penning-Rowsell et al., 2013).”
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Section 3.3 (page unavailable) describes household-level erosion control using bamboo barriers and bank vegetation, rather than house relocation as the only feasible adaptation. Section 3.3.1 says households perceived these measures as protecting homesteads and reducing erosion-related migration. The paper does not establish that dismantling and shifting houses is widespread along the Jamuna. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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Populations residing next to the rivers have developed coping strategies to minimize damage from floods and erosion.
“The populations residing next to the rivers have developed a range of coping strategies to minimize the damage resulting from floods (e.g., raising the platform of the house; Paul & Routray, 2010) and erosion (e.g., planting vegetation on the riverbank; Mamun et al., 2022).”
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Authors: Mamun, A. A., Islam, A. R. M. T., Alam, E., Chandra Pal, S., & Alam, G. M. M.
Affiliations: Begum Rokeya University (BD)
Rabdan Academy (AE)
Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman 713104, West Bengal, India
Gazipur Agricultural University (BD)
Corresponding author: Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul
ORCID: Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul
Alam, Edris
Alam, G. M. Monirul
Venue: Sustainability
Publisher: MDPI AG
Published: 2022-02-18
Volume: 14
Issue: 4
Pages: 2348
ISSN: 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3390/su14042348
OpenAlex: W4213241632
Cited by: 52
References: 35
Citations by year: 2026: 15 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4
FWCI: 4.93
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
Locations: Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Rabdan Academy Digital Repository (Rabdan Academy) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Keywords: bank erosion, livelihood resilience, bundling, bank vegetation, climate change vulnerability, farmland protection, household vulnerability, northern Bangladesh

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