Sajal Roy is a Lecturer in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh. Sajal is completing his doctoral studies at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He has also worked in South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Liberia. While in South Sudan, he contributed to lead a study entitled Adolescent Girls Initiative for the BRAC (the largest development NGO) and World Bank . In addition, he served as a consultant at the United Nations World Food Programme and WorldFish in Bangladesh.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Sundarbans Forest and the Gendered Context of Cyclones Aila and Sidr.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches: Gendered Knowledge in Forest, Ecology and Environment.- Chapter 3. Methods and Methodology.- Chapter 4. Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora.- Chapter 5. Women’s perceptions of and behaviours toward the Sundarbans forest.- Chapter 6. Survival at Shora: Ecological Security and the Sundarbans Forest.- Chapter 7. Implications of the gendered knowledge about the Sundarbans Forest at Shora and beyond.

Sajal Roy is a Lecturer in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh. Sajal is completing his doctoral studies at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He has also worked in South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Liberia. While in South Sudan, he contributed to lead a study entitled Adolescent Girls Initiative for the BRAC (the largest development NGO) and World Bank . In addition, he served as a consultant at the United Nations World Food Programme and WorldFish in Bangladesh.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Sundarbans Forest and the Gendered Context of Cyclones Aila and Sidr.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches: Gendered Knowledge in Forest, Ecology and Environment.- Chapter 3. Methods and Methodology.- Chapter 4. Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora.- Chapter 5. Women’s perceptions of and behaviours toward the Sundarbans forest.- Chapter 6. Survival at Shora: Ecological Security and the Sundarbans Forest.- Chapter 7. Implications of the gendered knowledge about the Sundarbans Forest at Shora and beyond.

Sajal Roy is a Lecturer in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh. Sajal is completing his doctoral studies at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He has also worked in South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Liberia. While in South Sudan, he contributed to lead a study entitled Adolescent Girls Initiative for the BRAC (the largest development NGO) and World Bank . In addition, he served as a consultant at the United Nations World Food Programme and WorldFish in Bangladesh.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Sundarbans Forest and the Gendered Context of Cyclones Aila and Sidr.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches: Gendered Knowledge in Forest, Ecology and Environment.- Chapter 3. Methods and Methodology.- Chapter 4. Narratives of the Sundarbans Forest at Shora.- Chapter 5. Women’s perceptions of and behaviours toward the Sundarbans forest.- Chapter 6. Survival at Shora: Ecological Security and the Sundarbans Forest.- Chapter 7. Implications of the gendered knowledge about the Sundarbans Forest at Shora and beyond.