Title:	Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh
Authors:	Md Aboul Fazal Younus
Keywords:	Climate
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The series ‘‘Springer Theses’’ brings together a selection of the very best Ph.D. theses from around the world and across the physical sciences. Nominated and endorsed by two recognized specialists, each published volume has been selected for its scientific excellence and the high impact of its contents for the pertinent field of research. For greater accessibility to non-specialists, the published versions include an extended introduction, as well as a foreword by the student’s supervisor explaining the special relevance of the work for the field. As a whole, the series will provide a valuable resource both for newcomers to the research fields described, and for other scientists seeking detailed background information on special questions. Finally, it provides an accredited documentation of the valuable contributions made by today’s younger generation of scientists. This book is structured around eight chapters and appendices, including field questionnaires. The book is well-grounded with a review of the relevant literature on adaptation and vulnerability, flooding, food security, and human security related to climate change. I believe this book should be very useful to climate change researchers, those working on community-based adaptation, development and policy making. Younus is well-equipped to write this book. He has the knowledge on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and I congratulate him on his timely and resourceful contribution. This book investigates autonomous adaptation using a multimethod technique which includes two participatory rapid appraisals (PRA), a questionnaire survey of 140 participant analyses over 14 mauzas in the case study area, group and in-depth discussions and a literature review. The study has four key approaches. First, it reviews the flood literature for Bangladesh from 1980 to 2009 and identifies a general description of flood hazard characteristics, history, and research trends, causes of floods and types of floods. Second, it examines farmers’ crop adaptation processes in a case study area at Islampur, Bangladesh, in response to different types of EFEs (multipeak with longer duration flood, single-peak with shorter duration flood and single-peak at the period of harvesting) and describes how farmers have been adapting to the extreme floods over time. Third, it assesses the V&A in response to three EFEs in 1998, 1995, and 1988. V&A are categorized on the basis of a weighted matrix index. The book uses PRA methodology and makes an important methodological contribution for assessing V&A. Fourth; the book assesses the economic consequences of failure effects of autonomous adaptation in response to EFEs. The results show that Bangladeshi farmers are highly resilient to EFEs, but the economic consequences of failure effects of autonomous crop adaptation (FEACA) on marginal farmers are large. These failure effects are defined as total crop loss against potential production, plus total agricultural cost multiplied by the number of flood events in the studied area. Total agricultural cost includes cost of seedlings, fertilizer, pesticides, land preparation, human labor, and watering.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53119
ISBN:	978-94-007-5494-2
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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