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### 20.1 Introduction With the increasing onslaught of climate-induced natural hazards, the effects of a disaster are magnified among the most vulnerable groups in a population. It is also observed that underdeveloped economies are the worst ends of such catastrophic events where such natural hazards have taken the proportion of disasters due to the socioeconomic deprivation level of the community (Mondal et al., 2022a). The study selects one such climateinduced natural hazard and its impact on the marginalized population, to make the study evidence-based. Although since 2015, landmark UN agreements, such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction or Paris Agreement, have always focussed on sustainable equitable development to reduce disaster risks to the community, literature revealed that there exists a gap between theory and practice. This article focuses on some of the most vulnerable cyclone-affected villages in the Sundarban coastal regions (North 24 Parganas district) of the Indian Sundarban, a fragile ecosystem with a historically socio-economically backward community taking up a number of challenges to living there. The study is an attempt to understand how coasta

Author

Parama Bannerji; Uma Chatterjee

Publisher

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780443187087

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Physics