Adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: migration, the missing link

Siddiqui, Tasneem; Billah, Motasim

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“…Especially after the devastating Sidr and Aila, most of the old trees died because of severe soil salinity. Making landfall during high tide in late May in 2009, cyclone Aila was associated with tidal surges of up to 6.5 meters, affecting 3.9 million people in 11 coastal districts [25,59]. Storm surges engulfed the whole areas overtopping the embankments by side of the rivers and saline water from the sea remained within the polders in whole areas of Koyra and Shyamnagar years after those catastrophes, due to drainage congestion in the polders.…”

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“…Cyclone Sidr alone resulted in damages and losses of about USD 1.7 billion, or 2.6% of the GDP in 2007 [20]. Super Cyclone Sidr hit the Bangladesh coastal line in November 2007 with a sustained wind speed up to 250 km/h and storm surges up to 9.1 meters, affecting livelihoods of around 8.9 million people with a death toll of 3406 [25,26]. The same cyclone washed away about 54,000 shrimp farms and hatcheries in the coastal districts [25].…”

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Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment

Kais

Islam

2019

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Local contexts as well as levels of exposure play a substantial role in defining a community’s perception of climate and environmental vulnerabilities. In order to assess a community’s adaptation strategies, understanding of how different groups in that community comprehend climate change is crucial. Public risk perception is important as it can induce or confine political, economic, and social actions dealing with particular hazards. Climate change adaptation is a well-established policy discourse in Bangladesh that has made its people more or less aware of it. Similarly, shrimp-farming communities in southwestern Bangladesh understand environmental and climate change in their own ways. In order to understand how the shrimp-farming communities in coastal Bangladesh perceive current climate instabilities, we conducted a qualitative study in shrimp-farming villages in coastal Bangladesh where about 80% of commercial shrimp of the country is cultivated. We compared farmers’ perceptions of local climate change with existing scientific knowledge and found remarkable similarities. Our assessment shows that at least two factors are critical for this outcome: coastal people’s exposure to and experience of frequent climate extremes; and a radical approach to defining climate regimes in Bangladesh by various stakeholders and the media, depicting anthropogenic global warming as a certainty for the country. Thus, a convergence of scientific construct and sociocultural construct construes the level of awareness of the general public about climate change.

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Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment

Kais

Islam

2019

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“…Cyclone Sidr, with a sustained wind speed up to 250 km/hr and storm surges up to 9.1 metre, affected 8.7 million people in 30 districts of the country, leading to 3,400 deaths and over 55,000 people injured. One million households lost their dwellings (Siddiqui and Billah, 2014). A total of 567,000 people lost their main source of livelihood either permanently or temporarily (ILO, 2008).…”

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Impacts of and resilience to climate change at the bottom of the shrimp commodity chain in Bangladesh: A preliminary investigation

Kais

Islam

2018

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“…With only about 7-9% of the GBM catchment area, Bangladesh receives 90-93% water discharged through these river systems (Rashid and Paul 2014, Siddiqui and Billah 2014, World Bank 2000, which causes regular flood events in the country.…”

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“…With a density of 3.5 foreign NGOs (branches) per square mile , it would not be any exaggeration if we call Bangladesh a 'land of NGOs'. In (Siddiqui and Billah 2014). In order to have a micro level focus of adaptation programs under CBA approach, the NGOs are developing local adaptation plan of action (LAPA) through which community-specific plans could be devised for implementation.…”

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Climate change and resilience in industrial aquaculture : a study of community capitals in the shrimp-farming zone in Bangladesh

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This research was made possible by funding from the Nanyang Technological University. I would like to deeply acknowledge that NTU Research Scholarship supported my study at NTU, stay in Singapore, fieldwork in Bangladesh, and participation in a number of conferences including one in Hiroshima. I thank the funders.I would like to express my utmost gratitude and appreciation to my wife, Joyfun Nahar, for her unwavering support and encouragement throughout my PhD programme. She always provided me with the vital emotional support without which I could not finish my job in time. Moreover, she had to take extra responsibility of taking care of all the family affairs in my absence. I am indebted iv to her. I am grateful to my father-in-law, Shabbir Ahmed Mia, who provided the much-needed familial support for me by staying with my wife and kids in my absence. My daughter, Saliha Nazia, who was just eight when I came to Singapore, also encouraged me during this long period of separation. Whenever I felt lonely, I talked to her on telephone or Skype. My little son, Muminur Rahman, who was born two months after I had come to Singapore in 2012, missed my affection and love until now -staying far away from me. He is too young to understand his contributions to this thesis.

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Adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh: migration, the missing link

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Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment

Perception of Climate Change in Shrimp-Farming Communities in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment

Impacts of and resilience to climate change at the bottom of the shrimp commodity chain in Bangladesh: A preliminary investigation

Climate change and resilience in industrial aquaculture : a study of community capitals in the shrimp-farming zone in Bangladesh

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