From aspirations for climate action to the reality of climate disasters: An investigation of climate change- induced floods and post-disaster reconstruction in Pakistan

The paper studies the phenomenon of “post disaster reconstruction in” Pakistan in the wake of climate change-induced floods of 2022 from the “precarity and possibility” lenses as a global emergency with the help of qualitative field data collected from the affected communities, IR donors and partners, relief workers from different organisations and through participant observations in Mirpurkhas region, Sindh. 

The research findings confirm the chances of building the affected communities' vulnerabilities without proper resources and there is a likelihood of food insecurity crisis that will further increase inflation, impact purchase power of people and might transform affected communities in Pakistan into climate change-refugees with redundant skillsets due to increasing the frequency of change in land use after these floods.