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BDRC Research Topic: Climate Change Adaptation

a) International Planning Workshop on:
Conceptualizing Effective and Efficient Adaptation Policies to Climate Change in Bangladesh
For further details about the workshop, please see:































b) How Vulnerable are Bangladesh’s Indigenous People to Climate Change?

    Abstract: This paper compares the vulnerabilities to climate change and climate variability of the
    indigenous people with the Bengali population of Bangladesh. It distinguishes between (a) individual
    vulnerabilities that are related to an individual’s capability to adapt to climate change and; (b) spatial
    vulnerabilities, that is, vulnerabilities that are related to the location of a person (like the exposure to climate
    change-induced disasters). While an individual’s capability to adapt to climate change is determined by
    many factors, some relatively simple approximation is to look at poverty, landlessness, and illiteracy. Spatial
    vulnerabilities are reviewed by looking at drought hazard maps, flood hazard maps, landslide hazard maps,
    and cyclone hazard maps. Hence, the paper compares levels of poverty, landlessness, illiteracy, and the
    more direct though also more subjective exposures to increased droughts, floods, landslides, and cyclones
    across the two population groups. The paper concludes with suggestions for adaptation strategies of
    indigenous people as well as suggestions for policy interventions to reduce climate change-induced
    vulnerabilities for indigenous people.

    Revised Paper availlable at:
    a) Bangladesh Development Research Working Paper Series
    b) Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
    c) RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)    


c) Climate Change and Bangladesh - Annotated Bibliography

Jointly with Bangladesh’s Climate Change Cell, the BDRC provides a comprehensive
which contains information on more than 300 publications addressing climate change in Bangladesh.

This publication also contains the names of and links to some 70 website resources, structured into four sections:  
(a) main international organizations working on climate change; (b) research centers/institutes that focus on
climate change; (c) websites of networks and/or websites with specific tools, projects, etc.; and (d) climate change
related newsletters specifically on Bangladesh. Please note that this publication is provided only electronically as:
(i) it contains more than 300 hyperlinks/website addresses which provide readers further information, (ii) the
electronic version allows readers to search the contents, and (iii) it is planned to be updated frequently.
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Presentations made on Day 1:

        Shireen Kamal Sayeed, Assistant Country Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangladesh

        Mozaharul Alam, Research Fellow, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)

        Bernhard G. Gunter, President, Bangladesh Development Research Center (BDRC)

        John D. Shilling, Chairman, Board of Trustees, MI
Selected Resources on Bangladesh Climate Change Adaptation: