Heidi Kreibich, Anne F. Van Loon, Kai Schröter, Philip J. Ward et al.
Abstract Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally 1,2 , yet their impacts are still increasing 3 . An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is therefore needed, but has been hampered by a lack of empirical data 4,5 . On the basis of a global datase...
David Benson, Animesh K. Gain, Josselin Rouillard
Nexus thinking, in the form of integrating water security with agriculture, energy and climate concerns, is normatively argued to help better transition societies towards greener economies and the wider goal of sustainable development. Yet several issues emerge from the current debate surrounding th...
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...
Animesh K. Gain, Carlo Giupponi
The variation of river flow within a natural range plays an important role in promoting the social-ecological sustainability of a river basin. In order to determine the extent of the natural range of variation, this study assesses hydrologic flow thresholds for the Lower Ganges River Basin. The flow...
Animesh K. Gain, Walter W. Immerzeel, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, Marc F. P. Bierkens
Abstract. Climate change is likely to have significant effects on the hydrology. The Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin is one of the most vulnerable areas in the world as it is subject to the combined effects of glacier melt, extreme monsoon rainfall and sea level rise. To what extent climate change wi...
Animesh K. Gain, Carlo Giupponi, Fabrice G. Renaud
Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the Earth’s ecosystems and therefore people’s livelihoods and wellbeing. Besides climatic change, current demographic trends, economic development and related land use changes have direct impact on increasing demand for freshwater r...
Animesh K. Gain, David Benson, Rezaur Rahman, Dilip Kumar Datta et al.
Md. Sadequr Rahman, Animesh K. Gain
River bank erosion negatively affects on people and their livelihood with their economic, social and psychological distress increasing over the time. Most of the people are vulnerable and their economic condition are fragile for internally displaced in Dakshin Bedkashi, Choramukha and Ghorilal villa...
Animesh Pal, Kutub Uddin, Bidyut Baran Saha, Kyaw Thu et al.
To properly address the threat of global warming, there is an urgent need to reduce CO2 from the atmosphere through the development of environment-friendly technologies. Therefore, capturing/storage and utilization of CO2 as a refrigerant for adsorption cooling/heating technologies have been gaining...
Animesh K. Gain, Carlo Giupponi, David Benson
This paper provides a review of the emerging literature on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus and then analyses the nexus in the context of Bangladesh. Results suggest that the WEF nexus is not yet recognized in the policy documents of Bangladesh, while conflicts over these resources are growing. In ...
Animesh K. Gain, Mousumi Mondal, Rezaur Rahman
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is considered as a practical approach in solving water-related problems, which are socio-ecologically complex in nature. Bangladesh has also embraced the IWRM approach against its earlier attempt to flood control. In this paper, we evaluate the current st...
Kushal Roy, Animesh K. Gain, Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
Josselin Rouillard, David Benson, Animesh K. Gain
Optimizing the capacity to adapt to climate change impacts has become a critical challenge for human societies. This article therefore evaluates how integrated water resource management (IWRM) approaches help enhance adaptive capacity to climate change impacts on water resources. An evaluative frame...
Animesh K. Gain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
Abstract Traditional flood design methods are increasingly supplemented by risk‐oriented methods based on comprehensive risk analysis. This analysis requires: (1) the estimation of flood hazard that represents intensity of a flood, (2) estimation of vulnerability, e.g. percentage of damage to total ...
Ranjan Roy, Animesh K. Gain, Narimah Samat, Margot Hurlbert et al.
Assessments of “resilience” are becoming a priority across multiple sectors. Specifically, the coastal agricultural system in Bangladesh faces a multitude of problems such as sea level rise. Building resilience for this system is thus important in accelerating the country’s socio-economic developmen...