Md. Nasif Ahsan, Jeroen Warner
Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Helen Adams, Harald Sterly et al.
Farhana Ahmed, Eddy Moors, M. Shah Alam Khan, Jeroen Warner et al.
Envisioning the future city as the outcome of planned development, several master and strategic plans for Dhaka were prepared. However, these plans, do not adequately address the well-known and combined effects of climate change and unplanned urbanization on urban flooding. Additionally, the spatial...
Martijn F. van Staveren, Jeroen Warner, M. Shah Alam Khan
The southwest coastal delta of Bangladesh is not only geographically home to a dynamic interplay between land and water, and between fresh surface water and saline tides, but also to contentious debates on flood management policy. It has been argued that dealing with delta floods in this region boil...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, Jeroen Warner
Despite sincere efforts by concerned agencies and recent improvements in hazard warnings, thousands of at-risk people did not evacuate during Aila, a category-I tropical cyclone that struck southwestern coastal Bangladesh in 2009. This study investigated the responses of the people affected by Aila ...
Art Dewulf, Timothy Karpouzoglou, Jeroen Warner, Anna Wesselink et al.
Abstract Since the early work on defining and analyzing resilience in domains such as engineering, ecology and psychology, the concept has gained significant traction in many fields of research and practice. It has also become a very powerful justification for various policy goals in the water secto...
Mahmuda Mutahara, Jeroen Warner, A.E.J. Wals, M. Shah Alam Khan et al.
The article analyzes Tidal River Management in Bangladesh from a social learning perspective. Four cases were investigated using participatory assessment. Knowledge acquisition through transformations in the Tidal River Management process was explored as an intended learning outcome. The study finds...
Sumit Vij, Jeroen Warner, Robbert Biesbroek, Annemarie Groot
This article shows how Bangladesh and India intentionally maintain the status quo for the Brahmaputra River at the transboundary level, using material and ideational resources. Results show that India wants to reduce its hegemonic vulnerabilities and Bangladesh aims to maintain its control over the ...
Jeroen Warner, Martijn F. van Staveren, J.P.M. van Tatenhove
Renewed attention for ecosystem dynamics when considering flood related interventions has been instrumental in shaping initiatives to ‘de-polder' lands, i.e. returning previously reclaimed land to the waters. This is a substantial paradigm shift in land and water management, as poldering has been cr...
Mahmuda Mutahara, Anisul Haque, M. Shah Alam Khan, Jeroen Warner et al.
Coastal communities in Bangladesh are at great risk due to frequent cyclones and cyclone induced storm-surges, which damages inland and marine resource systems. In the present research, seven marginal livelihood groups including Farmers, Fisherman, Fry (shrimp) collectors, Salt farmers, Dry fishers,...
Muhammad Shifuddin Mahmud, Dik Roth, Jeroen Warner
In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the sali...
Simon Pemberton, Basundhara Tripathy Furlong, Oliver Scanlan, Vally Koubi et al.
This paper brings work on mobility and ‘staying’ together with theoretical ideas of resilience to consider responses to climate change. To date, the majority of work that has explored the impacts of climate change on human populations has taken a migration-centred perspective, with an emphasis on mo...
Fatema Khatun, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Sonia Afrin, Jeroen Warner et al.
Farhana Ahmed, M. Shah Alam Khan, Jeroen Warner, Eddy Moors et al.
This paper applies an Adaptation Tipping Point (ATP) approach for the assessment of vulnerability to flooding in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A series of rigorous modelling exercises for fluvial and pluvial flooding was conducted to identify the critical ATPs of the physical system, under both exi...
Timothy Karpouzoglou, Văn Phạm Đăng Trí, Farhana Ahmed, Jeroen Warner et al.
Historically, flood resilience in large river deltas has been strongly tied to institutional and infrastructural interventions to manage flood risk (such as building of embankments and drainage structures). However, the introduction of infrastructural works has inevitably brought unforeseen, major c...