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Vulnerability of the Sundarbans Due to Climate Change in Bangladesh

Mohammad Abdul Quader
Department of Geography and Environment, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study endeavors to decipher the possible affects on the Sundarbans due to rapid climate change by reviewing the existing literature, interviews with experts and forest officials and FGD with different stakeholders. Increase in salinity, sea level rise natural calamities etc. are the main vulnerabilities of the Sundarbans.

Keywords: Climate change, Salinity, Biogeochemical processes, Mangrove, Sundarbans Reserve Forest

Location: The Sundarbans areas

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Program Area: Risk Management in Agriculture

Commodity: Sundarban

Objectives:

This paper identifies the vulnerability of the coastal mangroves - the Sundarbans to sea level rise and other climate change impacts. The impacts of climate change on the Sundarbans and the opportunities and challenges faced in mainstreaming adaptation responses to ameliorate some of these impacts are discussed in the paper.

Methodology:

The general approach for the work is to highlight the results available in literature on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change for the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. The analysis was conducted by interviews with individuals from key government agencies, NGOs, as well as FGD with stakeholders.

Source of Information: Khulna University Studies Special Issue (SESB 2010) : 53-56: June, 2010

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Achievement/Findings:

The effect of water diversion as a result of the Farakka barrage on dry season flows and salinity levels in the Sundarbans was in fact comparable (if not higher) than the impact that might be experienced several decades later as a result of climate change. Adaptation of the Sundarbans to climate change might therefore not just be local but requires cross-boundary institutional arrangements. Climate change risks should also not distract from aggressively addressing other critical threats, including shrimp farming, illegal felling of trees, poaching of wildlife, and oil pollution from barge traffic, that might already critically threatening the fragile ecosystems such as the Sundarbans even before significant climate change impacts manifest themselves.

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