Bangladesh II: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries

1. Front Matter

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2. Climate Change Impact and Comprehensive Disaster Management Approach in Bangladesh: A Review

   • Md. Nazrul Islam, Sahanaj Tamanna, André van Amstel, Md. Noman, Md. Sajid Saadat Ali, Ditiya Malek Aparajita et al.

   Pages 1-39

3. Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation Approach: Coastal Landscape, Transport, and Health Aspects

   • Md. Mozahidul Islam, Md. Shahin, Md. Miraj, Subarna Ghosh, Md. Nazrul Islam, Israt Islam

   Pages 41-101

4. Climate Change Impacts on Human Health Problems and Adaptation Strategies in the Southeastern Coastal Belt in Bangladesh

   • Kazi Md. Barkat Ali, Umme Kawser, Md. Nazrul Islam

   Pages 103-136

5. Measuring Resilience of Coastal Fishing Communities of Bangladesh to Climatic Impacts

   • Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Manjurul Islam, Md. Kawser Ahmed, Makidul Islam Khan, Angkur Mohammad Imteazzaman, Zakir Hossain

   Pages 137-157

6. Seaweed: A Powerful Tool for Climate Change Mitigation That Provides Various Ecological Services

   • Md. Simul Bhuyan, Md. Nazrul Islam, Abu Sayeed Muhammad Sharif, Md. Mohidul Islam, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Md. Enamul Hoq

   Pages 159-192

7. Climate Change-Induced Natural Hazard: Population Displacement, Settlement Relocation, and Livelihood Change Due to Riverbank Erosion in Bangladesh

   • Md. Abdul Malak, Nahrin Jannat Hossain, Mohammad Abdul Quader, Tania Akter, Md. Nazrul Islam

   Pages 193-210

8. Impact of Climate-Induced Cyclonic Disaster on Sustainable Livelihood Assets and Its Relevance to Household Food Security

   • Tasnim Jahan, Nazmun Nahar, Asib Ahmed

   Pages 211-241

9. Analysis of Spatio-temporal Variation of Lightning Casualties in Bangladesh

   • Ummey Kulsum, Hasan Mahmud, Md. Mizanoor Rahman

   Pages 243-265

10. Climate Change-Induced Livelihood Vulnerability and Adaptation of St. Martin’s Island’s Community, Bangladesh

    • Md. Kawser Ahmed, Farjana Yeasmin, Md. Monirul Islam, Aparna Barman, Zakir Hossain

    Pages 267-282

11. Migration Patterns and Adaptation Strategies to Natural Hazards Outside the Coastal Embankment of Bangladesh

    • Md. Bahuddin Sikder, A. H. M. Abdul Baqee, Sameena Begum, Md. Najmul Kabir

    Pages 283-318

12. Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation Strategies to Develop the Low Carbon Themes in Bangladesh

    • Md. Nazrul Islam, Sahanaj Tamanna, Md. Noman, Rathindra Nath Biswas, Sashwot Kharel, Ishtiak Ahmed et al.

    Pages 319-355

13. Governance for Sustainable Development to Combat the Impact of Climate Change in a Medium-Sized City in Bangladesh

    • A. K. M. Mahmudul Haque, Abdullah Al-Maruf, Tasnim Nazira Rida

    Pages 357-373

14. Climate Change Impact on Urban Cities in Bangladesh: Waste Management and Pollution Control Challenges

    • A. H. M. Monzurul Mamun, Mallik Akram Hossain

    Pages 375-390

15. Challenges for Char Dwellers from Riverine Floods Due to Climate Change: A Case Study from Northern Bangladesh

    • Md. Shamim Hossain, Md. Habibur Rahman

    Pages 391-419

16. Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Strategies in Bangladesh to Strengthen Regional Cooperation

    • Md. Nazrul Islam, Sahanaj Tamanna, Md. Noman, Effat Akhter, Md. Maruf Hasan, Mohammad Ashikur Rahman Rifat et al.

    Pages 421-458

17. Climate Change and Living with Floods: An Empirical Case from the Saghata Union of Gaibandha District, Bangladesh

    • Biddut Kumar Ghosh, Koyel Rani Sarker

    Pages 459-478

This volume aims to develop a framework for disaster and climate risk resilient livelihood system in Bangladesh using a policy oriented approach. It highlights the possible impacts of climate change on groundwater based irrigation in the country. Climate change is one of biggest challenges to society. It can lead to serious impacts on production, life and environment on a global scale. Higher temperatures and sea level rise will cause flooding and water salinity problems which will bring about negative effects on agriculture and high risks to industry and socio-economic systems in the future. Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as: “Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.” Global climate change has emerged as a key issue in both political and economic arenas. It is an increasingly questioned phenomenon, and progressive national governments around the world have started taking action to respond to these environmental concerns.

• Climate Change in Bangladesh
• Climate Change in Developping Countries
• Climate Smart Resilience
• Coastal Ecosystem
• Groundwater Irrigation Impacts
• Resilient Water Supply
• climate change
• climate change impacts
• Climate change management

• Department of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Md. Nazrul Islam

• Wageningen University, Environmental Systems Analysis SENSE Research School, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  André van Amstel

Professor Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam is a permanent Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment in Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. Prof. Nazrul has completed his PhD. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Besides, he has completed Two Year Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Prof. Nazrul fields of interest are environmental and ecological modeling, climate change impact on aquatic systems, modeling of phytoplankton transition, harmful algae, and marine ecosystems regarding to deal with hydrodynamic ecosystems coupled model on coastal seas, bays and estuaries, application of computer based programming for numerical simulation modeling etc. Prof. Nazrul is an expert on scientific research techniques and methods to develop the models for environmental systems modeling research. Prof. Nazrul also visited as an invited speakers in several foreign Universities in Japan, USA, Australia, UK, Canada, China, South Korea, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam etc. Prof. Nazrul has been awarded “Best Young Researcher Award” by the International Society of Ecological Modeling (ISEM) for the outstanding contribution to the Ecological Modeling fields, 2013, Toulouse, France and he has also been awarded “Best Paper Presenter Award 2010” by SautaiN in Kyoto, Japan. He has also been awarded as a “Best Poster Presenter Award” in the Techno Ocean Conference, Kobe City Exhibition Hall at Kobe in Japan.  Prof. Nazrul has made more than 40 scholarly presentations in more than 20 countries around the world, authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and authors of 15 books and research volumes. Currently Prof. Nazrul has published an excellent textbook entitled “Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems” jointly with Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen by the CRC press (Taylor & Francis). He has also currently published an excellent book entitled: Bangladesh I: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries, Springer Publication, the Netherlands & Germany. Prof. Nazrul is currently serving as an “Executive Editor-in-Chief” of the journal “Modeling Earth Systems and Environment”, Springer International Publications (Journal no. 40808). 

Prof. Dr. Andre Ronald van Amstel is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. Andre van Amstel studied Physical Geography and Planning in Amsterdam and has a long standing expertise in Integrated Environmental Assessment. He contributed to the development of Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment at the Institute of Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the global environment and the risk of a runaway greenhouse effect by methane from melting of the permafrost in the Arctic. Van Amstel contributed to the IPCC 2006 Guidelines on Agriculture, Forestry and Land use and as such contributed the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 for Al Gore and the IPCC. Since 2014 he is a member of the Nordforsk Scientific Advisory Board for the Arctic Council of Ministers on Arctic Integrated Environmental Research.

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