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
- Livelihoods and capacity to adapt to climate change in Bangladesh
- A. Subbiah; S. Baas; J. Ingmar / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006
- What are people already doing to adapt their livelihoods to climate change in Bangladesh? What can be done to improve their capacity to adapt?This case study report documents responses to the continuing trend of more frequent and intense dr...
- Planning and managing the impacts of climate change on human migration
- M. Couldrey (ed); M. Herson (ed) / Forced Migration Review, 2008
- In response to growing climate change pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving and adapting. Evidence points towards climate and environmentally induced migration becoming one of the major policy challenges...
- A guide on adapting to drought in Bangladesh
- S. Ramamasy; S. Baas / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
- In Bangladesh where agriculture is the largest sector of the economy, agricultural production is under pressure from increasing demands for food. A large percentage of the population is already vulnerable to a range of natural hazards...
- Impact of climate change on natural disasters in Bangladesh
- Md. Shamsuddoha; R., K. Chowdhury / Equity and Justice Working Group, 2007
- Focusing on the coastal areas of Bangladesh, this report analyses the impact of disasters with specific reference to the effects of climate change. It also looks at the nature of the disasters that frequently occur and discusses effor...
- The impact of demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries
- R. Black; D. Kniveton; R. Skeldon / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
- This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps ...
- Addressing the needs and rights of those affected by riverbank erosion in Bangladesh
- C., R. Abrar; S., N. Azad / Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
- Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way that other natural disasters do and as...
- Piloting the community component of the GEF Strategic Priority on Adaptation
- United Nations Development Programme, 2008
- Small communities are often the most severely affected, yet the least equipped to cope with the impacts of climate change.In recognition of this, the UNDP-GEF Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) project pilots the community compone...
- The livelihood impact of the environment on the Char people of Bangladesh
- N. Huq; N. Chowdhury / Unnayan Onneshan, 2008
- This paper examines the vulnerability situation of people in the Charlands of Bangladesh. These are sandbars that emerge as islands within the river channel or as attached land to the riverbanks as a result of the dynamics of erosion ...
- How can livelihood diversification influence adaptive capacities in rural Bangladesh?
- J. Pouliotte; N. Islam; B. Smit; S. Islam / Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, 2006
- For many of the poorest residents of Subarnabad, a village in rural Bangladesh, lackof money to meet basic needs is related to the environmental changes that have been occurring during the last 25 to 30 years. The authors describe the...
- Did the Bali climate change negotiations sideline the interests of LDCs?
- M. Shamsuddoha; R., K. Chowdhury / Equity & Justice Working Group, 2008
- This policy discussion paper critically reviews the UNFCCC climate change negotiations held in Bali in December 2007. It is intended to provide an insight to the readers, especially developing country’s policy makers and&nb...
- 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...
