Bangladesh and Climate change
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- The Adaptation Learning Mechanism
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- Search country-specific adaptation profiles from the Adaptation Learning Mechanism
- Climate change will substantially impact development in South Asia
- M. Alam; L.A. Murray / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005
- This paper provides an overview of the likely impacts of climate change on three of the least developed countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. In these countries, climate change effects will include changes in temperat...
- Natural disasters do not inevitably harm development in the longer term
- C. Benson; E.J. Clay / Climate Change, World Bank, 2004
- This study examines the short and long term economic and financial impacts of natural disasters. It relies in part on in-depth case studies of overall sensitivity to natural hazards in the small island economy of Dominica; public fina...
- Environmental disasters destroy livelihoods in Bangladesh, causing mass migration to India
- S. Alam / Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
- Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the ...
- Developing climate change adaptation plans of actions in LDCs
- S. Huq; A. Rahman; M. Konate / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003
- Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy priority in the international negotiations on climate change in recent years. The experience cited in this report on two LDC countries, namely Bangladesh in Asia and Mal...
- How can population and environmental concerns be integrated to achieve sustainable development?
- S Huq; A. A. Rahman; D. Mallick / Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 1998
- The paper challenges the simplistic concept of population as an aggregate of consuming units, putting stress increasingly on the natural resources leading to environmental degradation. It argues that the inter-relationship between pop...
- Bangladesh moves to combine emission mitigation with economic development
- M. Alam; A.A. Rahman; N. Huq; S.A. Kabir / Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 2000
- The paper examines Bangladesh's moves to address environmental degradation and natural resource management. It stresses that although the first imperative of any organised socio-economic activity at any level should be to eradicate po...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
- Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD)
- Center for Participatory Research and Development is an independent, non-profit policy, research and implementation institute.
- Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Activists advocating policy dialogue and change in attitudes in Bangladesh
- Climate Action Network, South Asia (CANSA)
- Climate change research and dissemination organisation based in Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)
- Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) is an independent, non-profit making, non-government research organisation working on Resource Management, Environment and Development (RMED) issues. It was established in 1986 and over the years has grown to become a leading research and policy institute in the non-government sectors. BCAS works on REMD related issues in both the national and internat...
