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| DOI | 10.1080/14693062.2024.2305762 |
| Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| ISSN | 1469-3062 |
| EISSN | 1752-7457 |
| 英文摘要 | In theory, the work of microfinance organisations (MFOs) should help to reduce social vulnerability to climate change, and there is growing interest in using microfinance for this purpose. However, evidence of a relationship between MFOs and social vulnerability is limited and piecemeal, as is knowledge of which of their various services associate with the diverse dimensions of vulnerability. This paper investigates the role that MFOs play in reducing social vulnerability to climate change in Bangladesh, a country that has both a long history of microfinance services and many people who are acutely vulnerable to climate change. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through interviews with 60 households across four villages in a disaster-prone coastal area in the south-west of Bangladesh. The results indicate that households who have engaged with at least one MFO have less social vulnerability than those who have not, and that the principal ways in which MFOs help reduce social vulnerability are through helping households to save regularly, providing vocational training, and facilitating participation in diverse social groups. Yet climate hazards can undermine these positive benefits, such as when cyclones damage infrastructure for which housholds still have outstanding loans. There are also households for whom accessing MFOs is difficult, such as those with very low levels of education or with chronic health issues. Such limitations need to be addressed if microfinance organisations are to provide more comprehensive and long-term reductions in social vulnerability to climate change. |
| 英文关键词 | Adaptation; adaptive capacity; Bangladesh; community-based adaptation; finance; sustainable livelihoods |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public Administration |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Studies ; Public Administration |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001145189000001 |
| 来源期刊 | CLIMATE POLICY
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/307183 |
| 作者单位 | University of Wollongong; University of Melbourne |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | . Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations[J],2024. |
| APA | (2024).Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations.CLIMATE POLICY. |
| MLA | "Reducing social vulnerability to climate change: the role of microfinance organisations".CLIMATE POLICY (2024). |
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