Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change - Keeping Our Heads Above Water

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.

List of contents

1. Actors, not victims; 2. How will climate change hit Bangladesh; 3. Taking the lead in negotiations - and moving forward; 4. Sea level rise and the vulnerable coast, where farmers know more than engineers; 5. Saving lives with cyclone shelters; 6. Living with floods; 7. Agronomists keeping ahead of climate change; 8. No climate change migrants - yet; 9. How can the privatised megacity cope with climate change?; 10. Is climate change only a problem for the urban poor?; 11. Power - political, financial and electrical; 12. The front line of climate change; Index.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Hanlon, Joseph Roy Hanlon, Hanlon Joseph, David Hulme, Manoj Roy, Manoj Hanlon Roy, Roy Manoj
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783086320
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-632-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Anthem Climate Change and Poli; Anthem Climate Change and Policy Series; Climate Change: Science, Policy and Implementation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, Aid & relief programmes, Social impact of disasters, Development Studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)