Sustainable Management of Indigenous Knowledge Responses to Climate Change for Coastal Islands of Bangladesh

The practice of knowledge management continues to present several challenges. Even while indigenous and traditional knowledge is passed down from one generation to the next, it is only preserved with the help of the community who identify as indigenous. Unique edition practices, technical advancements, behavioral techniques, managerial innovations, and coverage are all attained throughout Bangladesh. Communities in the coastal areas mostly involved different Earnings generating activities like agriculture, farm animals, rearing, fishing, rickshaw pulling, and day labouring, and some had been worried about the business. Traditional ecological knowledge plays the symbolic role of foretelling natural disasters like storms and tidal floods. Local people in Kutubdia, Maheskhali, and Sandwip, have been predicting the occurrence of storms and tidal floods by using TEK and observing their environment. Coastal populations saw a significant impact of coastal erosion and other climate-related challenges in the agriculture zone, which is a significant source of their livelihood, based on their indigenous knowledge. Most of the variation tactics can be taken into consideration as Indigenous studying techniques (ILA), in particular the non-agricultural measures. The integration of TEK and DRM activities could lead to an effective community-based DRM program. Both the government and local people should preserve, document, and improve TEK. The documented TEK in the study islands of the south-eastern coast of Bangladesh on flood and storm prediction and the lessons to integrate TEK and DRM activities in the island could also be applied to reduce disaster risks in other coastal areas not only in Bangladesh but also in other parts of the world.