An integrated approach providing scientific and policy-relevant insights for South-West Bangladesh
An integrated approach providing scientific and policy-relevant insights for South-West Bangladesh
Bangladesh is identified as an impact hotspot for sea-level rise in multiple studies. However, a range of other factors must be considered including catchment management, socio-economic development and governance quality, as well as delta plain biophysical processes. Taking an integrated assessment approach highlights that to 2050 future changes are more sensitive to human choice/policy intervention than climate change, ecosystem services diminish as a proportion of the economy with time, continuing historic trends and significant poverty persists for some households. Hence under favourable policy decisions, development could transform Bangladesh by 2050 making it less vulnerable to longer-term climate change and subsidence. Beyond 2050, the threats of climate change are much larger, requiring strategic adaptation responses and policy changes that must be initiated now.
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Nicholls, Robert J., Hutton, Craig W., Lázár, Attila N., Neil Adger, W., Allan, Andrew, Whitehead, Paul G., Wolf, Judith, Rahman, Md Munsur, Salehin, Mashfiqus, Hanson, Susan E. and Payo, Andres
(2018)
An integrated approach providing scientific and policy-relevant insights for South-West Bangladesh.
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Nicholls, Robert J., Hutton, Craig W., Adger, W. Neil, Hanson, Susan E., Rahman, Md. Munsur and Salehin, Mashfiqus
(eds.)
Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas: Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis.
Palgrave Macmillan Cham, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71093-8_3).
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Abstract
Bangladesh is identified as an impact hotspot for sea-level rise in multiple studies. However, a range of other factors must be considered including catchment management, socio-economic development and governance quality, as well as delta plain biophysical processes. Taking an integrated assessment approach highlights that to 2050 future changes are more sensitive to human choice/policy intervention than climate change, ecosystem services diminish as a proportion of the economy with time, continuing historic trends and significant poverty persists for some households. Hence under favourable policy decisions, development could transform Bangladesh by 2050 making it less vulnerable to longer-term climate change and subsidence. Beyond 2050, the threats of climate change are much larger, requiring strategic adaptation responses and policy changes that must be initiated now.
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W. Neil Adger
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Md Munsur Rahman
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Mashfiqus Salehin
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Andres Payo
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Robert J. Nicholls
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Craig W. Hutton
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W. Neil Adger
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Susan E. Hanson
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Md. Munsur Rahman
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Mashfiqus Salehin
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