This paper reviews the evolution of approaches to vulnerability assessment related to water resources. From the practices, research gaps are identified, and to overcome these gaps a generalised assessment framework is developed. A feasibility study is then presented in the context of the Lower Brahmaputra River Basin (LBRB). The results of the feasibility study identify the main constraints (e.g., lack of institutional coordination) and opportunities (e.g., adaptation) of LBRB.
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The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), in the context of the Incubator Programme, held a training workshop and national consultations on 19-21 January in Dhaka. The meetings were organized by CTCN Consortium Partner, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in collaboration with Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP).
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The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), as part of the Incubator Programme, held national consultations on 28-29 January in Kathmandu. The meetings were organized by CTCN Consortium Partner The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) together with National Designated Entity in Nepal (Mr. Ram Hari Pantha) and UNEP.
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The present report highlights the impacts of global climate change in agricultural development in Bangladesh. It addresses current and future food security of Bangladesh. It also recommends Policy makers to promote adaptation strategies for agriculture that have greater co-benefits in terms of agricultural productivity, mitigation and sustainable development of the sector.
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The objective of this research report is to provide an update of the climate change adaptation in water management for food security in South Asia, particularly focusing on Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. As a region as well as individual countries, the focused area represents one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change.
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This report addresses the most vulnerable zones to climate change risks in Bangladesh. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches to collect and analyze data. It recommends for improved technologies to adapt. It also suggests three agricultural models for managing natural resources for climate hotspots and for improving rural livelihood.
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Bangladesh is extremely climate vulnerable, and will be even more so due to climate change. DFID Bangladesh is a major provider of climate financing in Bangladesh, and has been supporting the country through the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BBCRF), the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) and the small Strategic Fund.
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Who benefits from disasters and the claims of dangerous, man-made (but still avoidable) global warming? Not that disasters never happen, but do we have the right diagnosis in this case?I
would like to add a note of optimism to the report by the New Economics
Foundation (NEF) and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) called
'The end of development'. Both warn of the reversal of human progress, unless of
course humanity responds as these 'experts' advise.
Such claims call for political analysis.
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This policy report explores three examples of community forest management (CFM) in Asia: Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. Each has a different system of forest governance, with varying degrees of community management and success. Local systems will be a key to the successful outcome of any global efforts for carbon payment schemes in developing countries. The challenges confronting these case studies, and the implications for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) governance, are discussed in the conclusion.
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For many of the poorest residents of Subarnabad, a village in rural Bangladesh, lackof money to meet basic needs is related to the environmental changes that have been occurring during the last 25 to 30 years. The authors describe the local vulnerabilities to environmental change such as saltwater intrusion and shrimp farm introduction in rural Bangladesh.