Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation of Bangladesh: Mechanisms, Notions and Solutions

Md Aboul Fazal Younus and Md Alamgir Kabir
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Md Aboul Fazal Younus: Geography, Environment and Population, School of Social Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, South Australia, Australia
Md Alamgir Kabir: Bangladesh High Commission, Rue de Lausanne 65, 1202 Genève, Switzerland

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: The concept of household vulnerability along with sustainable livelihoods has currently emerged as a significant concept in the climate change vulnerability and adaptation (CCVA) literature. In this paper, the vulnerability of Bangladesh has been assessed by using multiple regression analysis where twenty two effective variables have been chosen from the surveyed data given by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. The vulnerability has been functioned by three main stream components: Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, which have been adopted from the reports of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientific literature. Based on the higher significance and coefficient values, the variables, which have direct relationships and impact on income and illness, have been identified and prioritized. Household income and illness are the known driving forces for assessing the vulnerability. The motion of centripetal and centrifugal forces in decision making mechanisms, which are the main driving contributions of this paper, have been dealt as a new way to envisioning vulnerability and adaptation decision. Based on the prioritized variables some actions along with solutions have been taken into consideration, which have enormous significance in addressing localized plans and actions in order to reduce potential households’ vulnerability under climate change regimes in Bangladesh.

Keywords: climate change vulnerability and adaptation; adaptive capacity; exposure; sensitivity; notion and mechanism of adaptation; transformed adaptation; adaptation solution; Bangladesh; multiple regression; adaptation decision mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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