ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH : WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EXTREME FLOOD EVENTS AND FARMERS' CROP ADAPTATION

ISBN-13: 9783838379050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str.

MD Younus

Opis

A key concept in this book is the notion of autonomous adaptation', which Younus has been researching for more than 10 years. Younus has selected one of the riverine flood prone areas in Bangladesh, Islampur' as a case study area. He has explored how affected farmers adapt and adjust with normal floods which occur in most years. He then selected three recent extreme flood events in Bangladesh, occurring in 1988, 1995 and 1998 and retrospectively studied the adaptation techniques and strategies embraced by the same group of farmers in order to survive the more devastating deluges. He has used a multi-method research comprising a questionnaire survey, focus group discussion, agriculture block supervisors'interviews and in depth case study in order to identify community- based crop adaptation processes.Younus argues that in order to respond to the predicted impacts of climate change it is necessary to incorporate autonomous adaptation in planning and policy-making and to enhance and support community-based adaptation.

O autorze

MD YOUNUS, BSc (Honours: First Class), MSc (First Class)(Dhaka), MPhil (Waikato), PhD (Adelaide), is currently a Research Scholar at the discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He worked in BUP. He has membership with the IAG, ISEE, ANZSEE, PIA (2006/7), BGS, Bangla Academy,SID, and AS.