Bangladesh’s coastal regions, which lie at low elevations, face significant vulnerability to frequent monsoon floods, exacerbated by tides, and to strong tropical cyclones. Additionally, salinization impacts drinking water quality and soil salinity restricts food production in these coastal areas. Flooding further contaminates drinking water, causing outbursts of infectious diseases. This situation is expected to get worse due to a higher temperature, increasing sea level and changing weather pattern as impacts of climate change. Besides, land subsidence, which is a natural process in this delta area, and the growing population complicate the situation. Population growth may drive suburbanization and economic activities in the coastal areas possibly bringing environmental degradation as well. The gradually changing climatic conditions could over time render large areas of Bangladesh highly vulnerable to flooding and by 2050, potentially displacing millions of people in coastal areas. For other locations, like big cities, it is expected that by 2050 or 2100, huge numbers of residents, may face serious challenges to essential services like electricity, safe drinking water, transportation and a healthy living environment. Bangladesh has made substantial progress in economic growth, poverty reduction, and natural resource management. The challenge now is to preserve these achievements through a long-term, multi-sectoral approach, and effective, timely implementation of necessary measures. This requires a dedicated delta plan supported by key political parties, with coordinated efforts in water resources and disaster management, food production, spatial planning, and supporting socio-economic development. In this way, adaptation to climate change in an integrated approach is still an enormous task in this country but essential for managing natural resources and meeting the demands of water safety and security, food security, industry navigation, and last but not least the environment and ecology.

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Framing of a Long-Term Adaptive Strategy

  • Jaap M. de Heer,
  • Giasuddin Ahmed Choudhury

摘要

Bangladesh’s coastal regions, which lie at low elevations, face significant vulnerability to frequent monsoon floods, exacerbated by tides, and to strong tropical cyclones. Additionally, salinization impacts drinking water quality and soil salinity restricts food production in these coastal areas. Flooding further contaminates drinking water, causing outbursts of infectious diseases. This situation is expected to get worse due to a higher temperature, increasing sea level and changing weather pattern as impacts of climate change. Besides, land subsidence, which is a natural process in this delta area, and the growing population complicate the situation. Population growth may drive suburbanization and economic activities in the coastal areas possibly bringing environmental degradation as well. The gradually changing climatic conditions could over time render large areas of Bangladesh highly vulnerable to flooding and by 2050, potentially displacing millions of people in coastal areas. For other locations, like big cities, it is expected that by 2050 or 2100, huge numbers of residents, may face serious challenges to essential services like electricity, safe drinking water, transportation and a healthy living environment. Bangladesh has made substantial progress in economic growth, poverty reduction, and natural resource management. The challenge now is to preserve these achievements through a long-term, multi-sectoral approach, and effective, timely implementation of necessary measures. This requires a dedicated delta plan supported by key political parties, with coordinated efforts in water resources and disaster management, food production, spatial planning, and supporting socio-economic development. In this way, adaptation to climate change in an integrated approach is still an enormous task in this country but essential for managing natural resources and meeting the demands of water safety and security, food security, industry navigation, and last but not least the environment and ecology.