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E-book Misreading the Bengal Delta : Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal? Bangladesh

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n , climate-related overseas development assistance totaled US. billion globally, up from US. billion in . In order for countries and NGOs to access this funding, climate change adaptation or mitigation must be a princi-pal or signicant goal of development interventions (Donor Tracker ). e Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ranks Bangladesh as one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world, and climate change is now mainstreamed into all of Bangladesh’s development activities (Lewis ; Alam ). From  to , donors and development agencies (including EU member states and the World Bank) allocated approximately US. billion to Bangladesh. In  the World Bank allocated US million for ood-protection embankments as climate adaptation infrastructure. To access such considerable funding streams, nongovernmental organizations, state bu-reaucracies, and research institutions in Bangladesh must ensure that their proj-ect proposals for development interventions appear as climate relevant. Oen, such project proposals rely on appealing to donors’ perceptions of Bangladesh’s low-lying oodplains as being at particular risk as global sea levels rise, making the country an “epicenter of climate change” (Cons , ).e common reading of Bangladesh as a victim of climate change assumes that as global warming increases, ice caps will melt, sea levels will rise, low-lying Bangladesh will drown, and people will ee because of oods and increasingly frequent natural disasters (cyclones), thus in turn becoming climate change ref-ugees ( Jolly and Ahmad ; Vidal ). While simplied narratives may help make development interventions seem related to climate change adaptation or resilience in order to attract aid funding, does it accurately capture the causality of oods in complex coastal landscapes? Might it even risk exacerbating envi-ronmental degradation and increasing coastal vulnerability to climatic change?Bangladesh is located in the largest delta in the world, formed by the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers. is is a hydrologically active delta with me-andering rivers that continuously reshape the land, through both erosion and sedimentation. Each year, these rivers carry approximately  billion cubic feet of silt on their journey from the Himalayas down to the Bay of Bengal—an incredible  percent of the total annual sediment of the world river system (Iqbal ). Silt can be described as part water and part mud (Lahiri-Dutt and Samanta , ) and is the intractable soil-water admixture particular to the Bengal tidal basin (Bhattacharyya ). Accumulated sand and silt are embed-ded into riverine environments making it hard to distinguish solid land from uid waters, especially during the annual monsoon. Indeed, silt destabilizes a clear dichotomy between land and water. Silt in these waters have, aer all, the ability to raise existing land levels and create new land masses in the rivers, lo-cally known as chars, best described as islands made of silt. Silt can change whole waterscapes and ecologies. In the unembanked Sundarbans mangrove forests, the ooding of silted river water raises land levels each year, keeping pace with sea level rise (Auerbach et al. 2015).

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Judul Seri

551.695492

No. Panggil

551.695492 DEW m

Penerbit

USA : University of Washington Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

239 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780295749624

Klasifikasi

551.695492

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Geographic Treatment of Climate in Bangladesh

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