Coastal Embankment Project for East Pakistan

Haq, Shafiqul; Burns, Joseph I.

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Section: The Coastal Embankment Project In Bangladesh: a Case Studymentioning

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“…Though vernacular embankments have always been a part of the cultural landscap in the coastal regions of Bangladesh [20,83], systematic development of large-scale em bankments for flood control started in the 1960s [84][85][86][87][88]. After Bangladesh (then East Pa kistan) experienced severe floods for three successive years in 1954, 1955, and 1956, th With an intended 350,000,000 cu yd of earth being moved [85], the project was believed to be one of the biggest earth moving jobs in the world at that time. The CEP, which covers all the exposed coastal districts of Bangladesh, comprises a complex network of dikes and drainage sluices (see Figure 4) and was the first extensive plan for providing protection against floods and salinity ingress in the coastal region.…”

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“…The CEP was designed with a view to ensuring the food security of the people of the country by increasing the yield of agricultural crops in the coastal reclaimed land through protecting the area from tidal and storm surge flooding and saltwater intrusion. It was estimated that the CEP would result in an increased rice production of 480,000 tonnes per year [85]. Initially, this project was successful in achieving its target, as demonstrated by The CEP was designed with a view to ensuring the food security of the people of the country by increasing the yield of agricultural crops in the coastal reclaimed land through protecting the area from tidal and storm surge flooding and saltwater intrusion.…”

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“…Initially, this project was successful in achieving its target, as demonstrated by The CEP was designed with a view to ensuring the food security of the people of the country by increasing the yield of agricultural crops in the coastal reclaimed land through protecting the area from tidal and storm surge flooding and saltwater intrusion. It was estimated that the CEP would result in an increased rice production of 480,000 tonnes per year [85]. Initially, this project was successful in achieving its target, as demonstrated by the increased rice production in the area for few years [51].…”

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Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh

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2023

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Climate change, one of the severest environmental threats to humankind, disproportionately affects low-income, developing countries in the Global South. Having no feasible mitigation alternatives, these countries resort to adaptation efforts to address climate perturbations. Climate change adaptation (or resilience) is primarily a localized course of action that depends on individuals, social networks, economies, ecologies, political structures, and the capabilities of all those to work collectively to absorb, learn from, and transform in the face of new realities. With a view to controlling the floods that shattered the life and economy of the then East Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh, during the mid-twentieth century, the coastal embankment project (CEP) was instituted as an adaptation strategy to natural disasters in Southwestern Bangladesh. Based on a qualitative analysis of primary and secondary data, this paper seeks to critically evaluate the efficacy of the CEP in terms of the space for feasible action and ecological modernization. The findings of this research indicate that the CEP has become an unrealistic venture that hinders the growing economic activity of shrimp aquaculture in the area. This paper is expected to contribute to generating further theoretical and empirical discourse on the evaluation of similar development projects around the globe.

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Section: The Coastal Embankment Project In Bangladesh: a Case Studymentioning

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Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh

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2023

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“…A study reveals that during 1973-2009 about 0.223 million ha were newly affected by soil salinity (MoA and FAO 2013:40). During the 1960s, earthen embankments were made along the banks of major rivers under the Coastal Embankment Project in the then East Pakistan in order to protect the reclaimed land from saline tidal surges and to enhance agricultural production in the area (Haq andBurns 1967, Schmidt 1969). These reclaimed and engineered landmasses are called polders.…”

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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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Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh

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2023

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Climate change, one of the severest environmental threats to humankind, disproportionately affects low-income developing countries in the global South. Having no feasible mitigation alternatives, these countries resort to adaptation efforts in addressing the climate perturbations. Climate change adaptation (or resilience) is primarily a localized course of action that depends on individuals, social networks, economies, ecologies, political structures, and the capabilities of all those to work collectively to absorb, learn from and transform in the face of new realities. With a view to controlling the floods that shattered the life and economy of the then East Pakistan, which is Bangladesh now, during the mid-twentieth century, the coastal embankment project (CEP) was instituted as an adaptation strategy to natural disasters in southwestern Bangladesh. Based on the qualitative analysis of primary and secondary data, this paper seeks to critically evaluate the efficacy of the CEP in terms of the space for feasible action and ecological modernization. The findings of this research indicate that the CEP has become an unrealistic venture that hinders the growing economic activity of shrimp aquaculture in the area. This paper is expected to contribute to generate further theoretical and empirical discourse on evaluating similar development projects around the globe.

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Coastal Embankment Project for East Pakistan

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Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh

Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh

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

Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh

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