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Author Younus, Md Aboul Fazal, author

Title Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh : processes, assessment and failure effects / Md Aboul Fazal Younus
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Springer theses
Springer theses.
Contents Introductory Background and Statement of the Problems -- Research Methodology -- Floods in Bangladesh: Nature, History, Research, Causes and Types -- Household Information in the Case Study Area -- Crop Adjustment Processes to Extreme Floods -- Community-Based Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment: Informing the Future by Understanding the Past -- Failure Effects of Autonomous Adaptation -- Conclusion and Recommendations
Summary The IPCC (2007 and 2014) warned that the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) basin will be at greatest risk due to increased flooding, and that the region's poverty would reduce its adaptation capacity
This book investigates autonomous adaptation using a multi-method technique comprising PRA and a questionnaire survey applied in the case study area 'Islampur' Upazila in Bangladesh
The study has four key approaches
First, it reviews the flood literature for Bangladesh from 1980 to 2014
Second, it examines farmers' crop adaptation processes in a case study area at Islampur, Bangladesh
Third, it assesses the vulnerability and adaptation (V & A) in response to three extreme flood events (EFEs)
Fourth, the book assesses the economic consequences of failure effects of autonomous crop adaptation in response to EFEs
The results show that Bangladeshi farmers are highly resilient to EFEs, but the economic consequences of failure effects of autonomous crop adaptation (FEACA) on marginal farmers are large
The book contributes to current knowledge by filling three important research gaps as follows, 1) farmers' autonomous crop adaptation processes in response to various types of extreme floods; 2) methodological contribution for assessing vulnerability and adaptation through PRA; and 3) the economic consequences of the failure effects of autonomous crop adaptations
This book provides a good account of 'autonomous adaptation' and its impact on flood vulnerable communities in Bangladesh
Anyone wishing to fully understand the impact of climate change should read the book
Analysis fysische geografie
physical geography
geografie
geography
landbouw
agriculture
natuurrampen
natural disasters
Geography (General)
Geografie
Notes "Doctoral thesis accepted by The University of Adelaide, Australia."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 2, 2014)
Subject Floods -- Bangladesh
Floodplain agriculture -- Bangladesh
Floods -- Economic aspects -- Bangladesh
Floods -- Social aspects -- Bangladesh
Climatic changes -- Bangladesh
Climatic changes
Floodplain agriculture
Floods
Floods -- Economic aspects
Floods -- Social aspects
Bangladesh
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789400754942
9400754949