Alternative green livelihood initiatives: An effective way to achieve the sustainable development goals at disaster vulnerable, Indian Sundarbans

Chowdhury, Abhiroop, Dawar, Aman, Bhattacharyya, Santanu and Naz, Aliya (2022) Alternative green livelihood initiatives: An effective way to achieve the sustainable development goals at disaster vulnerable, Indian Sundarbans. In: Global Sustainability Conference 2022, 17/04/2022 - 05/05/2022, Virtual, Online.

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Abstract

Indian Sundarban is the part of world's largest contiguous mangrove forest, delta and home to around 4.6 million people. Climate change induced natural disasters are rampant along its coasts destabilizing lives and livelihood in the region. Green alternative livelihood schemes addresses the Sustainability Development Goals (SDG), namely SDG-1 (No poverty), SDG-2 (Zero hunger), SDG- 8 (Descent work and economic growth), SDG-10 (Reduced inequalities) and it indirectly impart conservation of mangrove ecosystems (world's largest blue carbon sink) by reducing nature exploitive livelihood options (SDG- 13, Climate action). A project implemented at Indian Sundarbans, since 2017 introduced alternative livelihood options (Cycle Van transport, Van Repairing Shop, Grocery Shop, Tea Stall) to total 471 marginalized families who has been making 1,629.00 INR per month by 2021. External evaluation report indicated an average of 40472.50 INR annual income. As per this study, Tea stall is most profitable small business followed by Cycle Van transport, Grocery Shop and Grocery Shop.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords: Alternative Livelihood | Sustainable Development Goals | Sundarbans | Climate vulnerability; Rural development
Subjects: Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Environmental Science, Policy and Law
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Environment & Sustainability
Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2022 04:19
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2022 04:56
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1077/1/012007
Funders: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (BMZ, Tagore Society for Rural Development, Karl Kübel Stiftung für Kind und Familie
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/4670

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