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Fig.19.3 Riverembankment inBangladesh. SourceBangladeshClimateChangeTrust
Cyclones
Cyclonescauseuntolddamagetolivelihoods,propertyandlivestockofthemostvul-
nerablepeople(WorldBank2010).Onesevereeventoccursevery3yearsaccording
to theBangladeshClimateChangeStrategy andAction Plan (BCCSAP).Cyclone
Sidr, which hit the Southern coast in 2007, caused total economic losses of USD
1.7billion, or about 1.2%of annualGDP inBangladesh (GoB2008). The country
lostanestimated6%ofGDPtostormsfrom1998to2009(Wright2014).Although
the death toll from cyclones has been reduced significantly, the destruction, both
economicandnon-economic, is still prevalent today.
Drought
Mostprevalent in thenorthwest ofBangladesh, droughthasoftencaused famine in
theregion.Thepast50yearshaveseenabout20droughtperiodswithalmostroughly
23.000 sq. kmof land affected bydrought each year during the seconddry season
occurringbetweenJune toOctober (Nishat et al. 2013).Droughts affect about47%
of the landand53%of thepopulation.
SeaLevelRise
Risingsealevelsimpacttheagriculturalproductivityofarablelandandhasanimpact
onlivelihoodsofpeoplelivinginthecoastalregionofBangladesh.TheIPCCreports
that approximately 27millionpeople are estimated tobe at risk fromsea level rise
by the year 2050 inBangladesh.According toRabbani et al. (2013), sea levels at
thecoast of theBayofBengal,which lines theSoutherncoast ofBangladesh, have
already risen by an average of 2.5mmper year since 1950 and by an average of
5.3mmperyear from1977to2002.Theauthorsalsociteprojections that showthat
by 2030 sea levels could rise by a further 30 cm and by 2050 by 50 cm. Further
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima