Terry Cannon
Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of vulnerability, and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, si...
Walter Leal Filho, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun, Olawale Emmanuel Olayide, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro et al.
Many cities across the world are facing many problems climate change poses to their populations, communities and infrastructure. These vary from increased exposures to floods, to discomfort due to urban heat, depending on their geographical locations and settings. However, even though some cities ha...
Mohammed Nasir Uddin, A. K. M. Saiful Islam, Sujit Kumar Bala, G. M. Tarekul Islam et al.
The coastal region of Bangladesh is highly vulnerable due to its low adaptive capacity, dense population, flat topography and exposure to various natural disasters such as cyclone, storm surges, sea level rise, tidal floods, bank erosion etc. In addition to present vulnerability, climate change will...
Sonia Akter, Bishawjit Mallick
Edmund C. Penning‐Rowsell, Parvin Sultana, Paul M. Thompson
Koko Warner, Kees van der Geest
Loss and damage is already a significant consequence of inadequate ability to adapt to changes in climate patterns. This paper reports on the first ever multi-country, evidence-based study on loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in least developed and other vulnerable countries. R...
Richard Black, Dominic Kniveton, Kerstin Schmidt
This paper sets out a new approach to understanding the relationship between migration and climate change. Based on the understanding that migration is a significant, growing, but also complex phenomenon, this approach seeks to address the sensitivity of existing migration drivers in specific contex...
Katha Kartiki
Migration in response to climate change should not be seen as a failure to adapt, but as a strategy undertaken to increase household resilience. This will, however, happen when migration is planned and supported and not under distress. This article focuses on people's movements in the aftermath of c...
Mizan R. Khan, Stacy‐ann Robinson, Romain Weikmans, David Ciplet et al.
Abstract How much finance should be provided to support climate change adaptation and by whom? How should it be allocated, and on what basis? Over the years, various actors have expressed different normative expectations on climate finance. Which of these expectations are being met and which are not...
Heather McMillen, Tamara Ticktin, Alan M. Friedlander, Stacy D. Jupiter et al.
McMillen, H. L., T. Ticktin, A. Friedlander, S. D. Jupiter, R. Thaman, J. Campbell, J. Veitayaki, T. Giambelluca, S. Nihmei, E. Rupeni, L. Apis-Overhoff, W. Aalbersberg, and D. F. Orcherton. 2014. Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in...
Rabiul Islam, Greg Walkerden
David Mutton, C. Emdad Haque
The purpose of this research was to identify and analyse patterns of economic and social adaptation among river-bank erosion-induced displacees in Bangladesh. It was hypothesised that the role of social demographic and socio-economic variables in determining the coping ability and recovery of the ri...
Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, Kees van der Geest, Istiakh Ahmed, Saleemul Huq et al.
The Ganges–Brahmaputra delta enables Bangladesh to sustain a dense population, but it also exposes people to natural hazards. This article presents findings from the Gibika project, which researches livelihood resilience in seven study sites across Bangladesh. This study aims to understand how peopl...
Nazmul Huq, Jean Hugé, Emmanuel Boon, Animesh K. Gain
This paper identifies and analyses climate change impacts, their cascading consequences and the livelihood implications of these impacts on smallholder agricultural communities of coastal Bangladesh. Six physically and socio-economically vulnerable communities of south-western coastal regions were s...
Jennifer Pouliotte, Barry Smit, Lisa Westerhoff
This paper explores the relationship between environmental change and development through a vulnerability study of a rural village in southwest Bangladesh. Villagers deal with a variety of pressing stresses, and climate change is not considered separately, if at all. Environmental, political and eco...