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Bangladesh is a country that is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and a broad range of practices have emerged to adapt to these impacts. The book presents a range of sectors that are affected by the impacts of climate change, such as agriculture, water and health, as well as covering thematic areas relating to responses to climate change, such as governance and finance, communication and gender. Measures to adapt to climate impacts in the agricultural sector range from hard engineering measures like construction of polders, to soft socio-economic measures, such as changes in cropping patterns. In the water sector, non-structural approaches to risk reduction include community-based disaster management initiatives. Across all practice areas there are barriers and challenges to confronting the impacts of climate change, including knowledge gaps. The chapters of this book emerged as part of the Gobeshona initiative in Bangladesh, a knowledge sharing platform for climate change research on Bangladesh.
Dr. Helena Wright, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Corresponding Author, e-mail: drhelenawright@gmail.com.
Dr. Adrian Fenton, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Clare Stott, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Julia Taub, Project Officer, Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR), London.
Dr. Jeffrey Chow, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Wright, H., Fenton, A., Huq, S., Stott, C., Taub, J., Chow, J. (2019). Introduction: Bangladesh Responds to Climate Change. In: Huq, S., Chow, J., Fenton, A., Stott, C., Taub, J., Wright, H. (eds) Confronting Climate Change in Bangladesh. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05237-9_1
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