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Curated Podcast Reading List
Episode 01: On Bombay ducks, polygamy, disaster, and more.
Climate Adaptation Interventions in Coastal Areas: A Rapid Review of Social and Gender Dimensions
Anjal Prakash, Katriona McGlade, Mathew Koll Roxy, Jayashree Roy, Shreya Some, Nitya Rao (2022), Frontiers in Climate
Engendering Climate Change: Learnings from South Asia
Edited by Asha Hans, Nitya Rao, Anjal Prakash, Amrita Patel (2021), Routledge India
Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia
Nitya Rao, Elaine T. Lawson, Wapula N. Raditloaneng, Divya Solomon, Margaret N. Angula (2017), Climate and Development
Breadwinners and Homemakers: Migration and Changing Conjugal Expectations in Rural Bangladesh
Nitya Rao (2012), Journal of Development Studies
Land rights, gender equality and household food security: Exploring the conceptual links in the case of India
Nitya Rao (2006), Food Policy
Episode 02: On climate, conflict, and bride price in Afghanistan
Afghan parents are selling their children into marriage and labour to stave off poverty
Ruchi Kumar, The National, 2019
In Afghanistan, Climate Change Drives an Uptick in Child Marriage
Ruchi Kumar, Undark Magazine, 2019
What it's like being a woman in Afghanistan today: 'death in slow motion'
Ruchi Kumar, National Public Radio (NPR), 2022
Additional reading:
In Afghanistan, climate change complicates future prospects for peace
Sophia Jones, National Geographic, 2020
Child Marriage in Afghanistan Changing the narrative
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and UNICEF Afghanistan, 2018
Episode 03: Syed Aminul Haque on rising seas, cyclones, and 'seasonal brides' in coastal Bangladesh
Child marriages have alarmingly increased in Eidgaon and Ukhia Upazila of Cox’s Bazar District
COAST Bangladesh, 2021
Child marriage, climate vulnerability and natural disasters in coastal Bangladesh.
Asadullah, M.N., Islam, K.M.M. and Wahhaj, Z. in the Journal of biosocial science, 53(6)., 2021
Environmental vulnerability and early marriage in Southern Bangladesh.
Sigma Ainul and Sajeda Amin in Population Association of America Annual Meeting in San Diego, California., 2015
'With climate change driving child marriage risks, Bangladesh fights back'.
Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 2017.
Episode 04: Dr Upasona Ghosh on cyclones, borders, and child trafficking in the Sundarbans.
Children of an Uncertain Climate.
Upasona Ghosh Lalitha Swathi Vadrevu Arnab Mandal, 2018
The certainty of uncertainty: Climate change realities of the Indian Sundarbans.
Upasona Ghosh, Darley Jose Kjosavik and Shibaji Bose, The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India (pp. 107-133). Routledge., 2021
Climate change and uncertainty from ‘above’and ‘below’: perspectives from India.
Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava, Hans Nicolai Adam, Alankar, Shibaji Bose, Upasona Ghosh, V. Vijay Kumar, in Regional Environmental Change, 19, pp.1533-1547.
'In the Sundarban, climate change has an unlikely effect — on child sex-trafficking'.
Ritwika Mitra, The Fuller Project, 2022.
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