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
- Coastal fishers’ livelihood in peril: sea surface temperature and tropical cyclones in Bangladesh
- S.R. Chowdhury / Center for Participatory Research and Development, 2012
- Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world, where more than 3.5 million coastal peoples’ livelihoods depend directly or indirectly on fishing and related activities under extremely difficult conditions. E...
- Bangladesh: Clustered villages beat the floods
- 2011
- The effects of recurrent flooding – at least once and sometimes twice a year – in poor rural communities living along the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river in Bangladesh are severe and aggravated by climate change. While coping strat...
- Gender issue in climate change discourse: theory versus reality
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
- By reviewing literature related to climate change and gender issue this paper finds that women are more vulnerable to climate disasters than men through their socially constructed roles and responsibilities, and their relatively poore...
- Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change
- H. Reid / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
- Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these...
- Migration and living conditions in urban slums
- T. Akter 2012
- Migration to urban areas is a regular phenomenon but climate induced forced displacement to to cities, over the recent years, is a matter of concern. Increased frequency and severity of natural disasters by climate change over the pas...
- Paper exploring the possibility of standard practices to climate change policy
- S. A. Mason-Case; L. del Villar; D. Olawuyi; B. Mayer / International Development Law Organisation, 2011
- This paper highlights the challenges that governments face in implementing their international climate change policy commitments and the means to addressing these challenges. The authors note that international action on climate chang...
- Quantifying Carbon and distributional benefits of solar home system programs in Bangladesh
- World Bank, 2011
- Scaling-up adoption of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems, to expand electricity access in developing countries can accelerate the transition to low-carbon economic development. Using a purposely collected nationa...
- Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
- J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
- Country case studies on ICT and environmental policies
- Association for Progressive Communications, 2011
- The five research projects discussed here are part of a APC programme area in the field of ICTs and environmental sustainability. They accompany an inventory of sustainable ICT tools and practices and a survey of organisational-level ...
- Implications of climate change for fresh groundwater resources in coastal aquifers in Bangladesh
- W. Yu / World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- The objective of this study is to improve understanding of the implications of climate change for the groundwater systems in coastal Bangladesh. This is achieved by: (a) obtaining available geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical inform...
- 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...
