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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh

Part of the Springer Theses Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5494-2

ISBN: 978-94-007-5493-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jun 27, 2014

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Chapter 1Introductory Background and Statement of the Problems

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 1 –33

[This chapter of this book has focused on the problems in general, and reviews relevant literature on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in general, focusing on riverine extreme floods in the context of Bangladesh. The literature review follows on three broad issues, namely, (1) V&A...
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Chapter 2Research Methodology

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 35 –76

[In this chapter, the multi-method research approach is adopted in order to achieve the research objectives: (a) methodological contribution for assessing V&A in a riverine flood prone case study area; (b) failed effect of adaptation i.e. economic consequences on farmers’ households. Various...
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Chapter 3Floods in Bangladesh: Nature, History, Research, Causes and Types

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 77 –100

[This chapter reviews recent literature on flood research in Bangladesh: characteristics of riverine flood including Bangladesh’s national water policy and the major components, activities and their importance and criticism of the Flood Action Plan, and causes and types of floods. The chapter...
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Chapter 4Household Information in the Case Study Area

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 101 –116

[Household base-level data of a riverine flood vulnerable area in Bangladesh were explored and identified by 140 households’ questionnaire surveys in case study area Islampur upazila in 2006. The important findings were: high numbers of family members were in each surveyed household; numbers of...
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Chapter 5Crop Adjustment Processes to Extreme Floods

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 117 –128

[This chapter investigates farmers’ crop adaptation processes in response to three recent devastating floods in Islampur, chosen as a case-study area in rural Bangladesh. This chapter reports a multi-method research project which comprised a questionnaire survey, focus-group discussions, and...
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Chapter 6Community-Based Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment: Informing the Future by Understanding the Past

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 129 –154

[The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, contribution of working group 2 to the 4th assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 976, 2007 [1]) warned that...
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Chapter 7Failure Effects of Autonomous Adaptation

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 155 –183

[This chapter focuses on ‘autonomous adaptation’ and has one aim. It assesses the economic consequences of the failure effects of autonomous adaptation in response to extreme flood events. The chapter finds that Bangladeshi farmers are highly resilient to extreme flood events, but the economic...
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Chapter 8Conclusion and Recommendations

Younus, Md Aboul Fazal

Pages: 185 –198

[This chapter summarizes the major findings of this book. These are: (1) since 1954 no study has focused comprehensively on community input to assessment of V&A; (2) the consequences of failed adaptation have been assessed in the light of vulnerable farmers’ household information: socio-economic,...

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