Adaptation to Climate Change

Bangladesh Development
Research Center (BDRC)

“The greatest challenge mankind faces must be addressed within
a framework of commitment to global justice”

Saleemul Huq and Camilla Toulmin, London, November 7, 2006
(http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/climate_justice_4073.jsp) .

BDRC Research Topic: Climate Change Adaptation

a) International Planning Workshop on:
Conceptualizing Effective and Efficient Adaptation Policies to Climate Change in Bangladesh

uilding on current climate change research and recognizing the excellent work that has been

undertaken in

this regards,

four research organizations [

the

BCAS

, th

BDRC

, the

IIED

, and the

Millennium Institute (MI)

] ha

agreed to jointly organize an International Planning Workshop

draw

up a research program for

conceptualizing

effective

and efficient adaptation policies to

climate

change in Bangladesh.

Thanks to the generous support by the

Rockefeller Foundation

, this

three-

day

workshop w

held at the

Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference

Center

from

May 20-22, 2008.

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 inter

ventions to reduce climate change-induced

vulnerabilities for indigenous people.

Revised

Paper a

vaillable

Bangladesh Development Research Working Paper Series

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)

c) Climate Change and Bangladesh - Annotated Bibliography

Jointly with Bangladesh’s Climate Change Cell, the BDRC provides a comprehensive

Climate Change and Bangladesh -

Annotated Bibliography (pdf)

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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