Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.
Living in a low-lying and densely populated country on the front line of climate change, Bangladeshis are taking a lead in adapting to rising temperatures and campaigning to limit climate change. Global warming will worsen this country's existing environmental problems causing a rise in sea level, more flooding and stronger, more damaging cyclones.
Bangladeshis know what is coming, and how to respond, because they are already effectively combating environmental and social challenges. Cyclone shelters and warning systems have cut the fatality rate dramatically; new varieties of rice have raised nutrition levels; women's education has slowed population growth; land is being raised to respond to sea level rise. Bangladeshis will keep their heads above water, but at huge costs. Will the industrialised countries curb their greenhouse gas emissions and pay for the damage they have already done?
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Environment & Urbanisation journal
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Bangladesh shows how to adapt, innovate and live in a world affected by climate change.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the Authors |
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Chapter One Actors, Not Victims |
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Chapter Two How Will Climate Change Hit Bangladesh? |
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Chapter Three Taking the Lead in Negotiations -- and Moving Forward |
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Chapter Four Sea Level Rise and the Vulnerable Coast -- Where Farmers Know More than Engineers |
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Chapter Five Saving Lives with Cyclone Shelters |
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Chapter Six Living with Floods |
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Chapter Seven Agronomists Keeping Ahead of Climate Change |
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Chapter Eight No Climate Change Migrants -- Yet |
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Chapter Nine How Can the Privatized Megacity Cope with Climate Change? |
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Chapter Ten Is Climate Change Only a Problem for the Urban Poor? |
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Chapter Eleven Power -- Political, Financial and Electrical |
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Chapter Twelve Bangladesh on the Front Line of Climate Change |
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Manoj Roy is a lecturer in sustainability at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK.
Joseph Hanlon is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and a visiting senior research fellow at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
David Hulme is a professor of development studies and executive director of the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK.
