This book aims to assess the roles of entrepreneurship and social innovation for socio-cultural
changes. It also evaluates farmers' performance in disaster risk management at a community
level toward sustainable regional development in a rural haor region of Bangladesh. To achieve
the purpose of the research both a qualitative method (Trajectory Equifinality Modeling TEM)
and a quantitative method (Structural Equation Modeling SEM) are introduced based on the
results of case studies on local entrepreneurs interview and focus group discussions with
stakeholders and questionnaire surveys of farm households. First the results clarify that
social capital is critically important both for male and female entrepreneurs in the haor
region and that education is more important to women for empowerment and technology adoption
in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the haor region of Bangladesh. In addition it makes clear
that the Common Interest Group approach plays a role for women's empowerment in the target
region. Furthermore it identifies the multi-causal relationships among the factors affecting
farm households' performance in disaster risk management at the community level. This book
helps readers to understand regional development through social and cultural transformation in
a rural community where poverty and gender discrimination are path-dependent problems.
