Resilience of coastal agricultural systems in Bangladesh: Assessment for agroecosystem stewardship strategies

摘要: Abstract Assessments of “resilience” are becoming a priority across multiple sectors. Specifically, the coastal agricultural system in Bangladesh faces multitude problems such as sea level rise. Building resilience for this is thus important accelerating country’s socio-economic development. Therefore, objectives study (a) to assess systems and (b) develop agroecosystem stewardship strategies Bangladesh. Resilience was assessed quantitatively, based on an established framework that includes three capacities (i.e., absorptive, adaptive transformative) five dimensions, namely, social, economic, ecological, physical institutional. Fifteen indicators were developed by applying assemblage top-down bottom-up approaches. A structured questionnaire used survey 330 households from 15 villages sub-districts. The percentile value composite indices revealed one-fifths farmers (or households) had mixed ability (e.g., fish farming skills) capacity better decision-making) recover, reorganise evolve following shocks flash flood) stresses water logging). Following assessment, (facilitating governance; promoting economic ecological diversity; fostering social learning; investing infrastructure; increasing productivity) principal component analysis. methods objectively developing can be replicable other areas. findings intended contributing adaptation planning Bangladesh, especially Delta Plan 2100.