Future Speculations and Challenges

In reality, riverbank erosion is neither possible nor desirable to stop. Therefore, we have to go for a better understanding of the processes and their response mechanism. This calls for the future direction of research. Thus, this chapter focuses on the future challenges that include climate change, sea level rise, and sociocultural changes considering the future perspective of bank erosion. Under the increasing threats of climate change and sea level rise, riverbank erosion intends to scale up in the Indo-Bangladesh region especially the low-lying parts of the Bengal delta. Although the erosion tends to recur, people will be adjusted to these events with the message - ‘to live with hazard’ with minium impact.