Oishi Rani Saha is a Research Assistant in Facilitating Livelihoods through advancing Smart Habitats in Peri-Urban Bangladesh (FLASH) Project Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
Seventeen years after Cyclone Aila tore through Gabura, most families who survived it are still there. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork, this piece asks why people stay when the land is disappearing, and what that means for Bangladesh's climate policy.