Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Sundarbans: Challenges, Resilience, and Policy Pathways

This book discusses the sustainability challenges of small-scale fisheries in the Sundarbans, examining the socioecological dynamics and management approaches in this complex transboundary ecosystem shared between India and Bangladesh.Integrating oceanographic, ecological, and socioeconomic perspectives, it provides a multiscale analysis of artisanal fisheries in deltaic environments under anthropogenic climate stress. Employing multidimensional vulnerability frameworks, the work analyzes ecological risks-climatic threats, oceanographic shifts, pollution dynamics-alongside the gender-disaggregated livelihood in fishing communities and the socioeconomic constraints creating poverty traps.The narrative moves beyond the Sundarbans to explore mangrove fisheries across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, identifying cross-regional sustainability patterns and innovative solutions.Resilience-based adaptive management frameworks are presented to help combat these issues, and the authors