Stephanie Higgins, Irina Overeem, M. S. Steckler, James P. M. Syvitski et al.
Abstract Many of the world′s largest river deltas are sinking due to sediment loading, compaction, and tectonics but also recently because of groundwater extraction, hydrocarbon extraction, and reduced aggradation. Little is known, however, about the full spatial variability of subsidence rates in c...
Tharani Gopalakrishnan, Md Kamrul Hasan, A. T. M. Sanaul Haque, S. Jayasinghe et al.
Climatic and non-climatic stressors, such as temperature increases, rainfall fluctuations, population growth and migration, pollution, land-use changes and inadequate gender-specific strategies, are major challenges to coastal agricultural sustainability. In this paper, we discuss all pertinent issu...
Md. Mahbub Alam, Md. Arif Hossain, SULTANA SHAFEE
Abstract All the storms and depressions that formed in the Bay of Bengal during 1974–99 have been analysed. The number of occurrences in July is not in harmony with that of other months of the monsoon. Regions stricken are taken into account on a monthly, seasonal and annual basis. The Indian coast ...
Andrés Payo, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Sugata Hazra, Tuhin Ghosh et al.
The Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem, located in India and Bangladesh, is recognized as a global priority for biodiversity conservation and is an important provider of ecosystem services such as numerous goods and protection against storm surges. With global mean sea-level rise projected as up to 0.98 ...
Shafi Noor Islam
Md. Mahmuduzzaman, Zahir Ahmed, A. K. M. Nuruzzaman, Fazle Rabbi Sadeque Ahmed
As Bangladesh belongs to one of the seaside countries, the adverse impact of saltwater intrusion is significant here. Salinity mainly affects land and water in the coastal areas. With the consequence of climate change, it gradually extends towards inland water and soil. This scenario of gradual sali...
Md. Reaz Akter Mullick, Ahad Hasan Tanim, S M Samiul Islam
Bangladesh coast is recognized as one of the hotspots of several coastal hazards like coastal flood, sea level rise, increased tropical cyclone occurrence etc. To understand the problem followed by necessary coastal management recommendation, an integrated coastal vulnerability index i.e., Composite...
Kimberly G. Rogers, S. L. Goodbred, D. R. Mondal
Shahriar Wahid, Mukand S. Babel, Abdur Rahman Bhuiyan
M. Shah Nawaz Chowdhury, Brenda Walles, S.M. Sharifuzzaman, M. Shahadat Hossain et al.
Oyster reefs have the potential as eco-engineers to improve coastal protection. A field experiment was undertaken to assess the benefit of oyster breakwater reefs to mitigate shoreline erosion in a monsoon-dominated subtropical system. Three breakwater reefs with recruited oysters were deployed on a...
Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Anisul Haque, Jim W. Hall
From the 1960s, embankments have been constructed in south western coastal region of Bangladesh to provide protection against flooding, but the success of the polder programme is disputed. We present analysis of floods during the years 1988-2012, diagnosing whether the floods were attributable to mo...
Jeffrey Chow
Due to their prevalence in developing countries and the range of ecosystem services they provide, projects aimed at promoting mangroves align with several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals—specifically Goals 13, 14, and 15—which concern adaptation to climate change and the sustainable manageme...
Muhammad Al-Amin Hoque, Naser Ahmed, Biswajeet Pradhan, Sanjoy Roy
The eastern coastal region of Bangladesh, which has a 377 km-long coastline, is highly vulnerable to multi-hazardous events, such as tropical cyclones, coastal floods, coastal erosion and salinity intrusion. The vulnerability of this coastal region is likely to increase under the future climate chan...
Jakia Akter, Maminul Haque Sarker, Ioana Popescu, Dano Roelvink
Akter, J.; Sarker, M.H.; Popescu, I., and Roelvink, D., 2016. Evolution of the Bengal Delta and its prevailing processes.Bangladesh, occupying low-lying floodplains and tidal plains, has one of the largest and the most disaster-prone populous deltas in the world. The Bengal Delta is a tide-dominated...
Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, Attila N. Lázár, Andrew Allan et al.
Deltas provide diverse ecosystem services and benefits for their populations. At the same time, deltas are also recognised as one of the most vulnerable coastal environments, with a range of drivers operating at multiple scales, from global climate change and sea-level rise to deltaic-scale subsiden...