Climate Change and Mitigation Strategy in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh

Enviroment Science and technology

The purpose of the study is understands of climate change by the vulnerable people and to identify the elements of mitigating climate change disasters in coastal areas of Bangladesh. The coastal areas are affected regularly by flood frequency probabilities, erosion, inundation, erratic rainfall, increasing cyclone, storm surge, rising water tables, biological effects and salinity due to climate change. As a result, soil fertility, crop productivity, and food security seriously threatened and causing substantial reduction in food production and affecting rural livelihoods which impacted on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, environment, human health and infrastructure directly. This research study is descriptive-cum-empirical as well as suggestive in nature. The study is survey type. The present study has been included secondary resources consisting of books, newspapers, periodicals, articles from national and international level. Internet sources have been used for the research. Attempts have been made to include the latest information whenever available. At the same time primary data have been collected through interview with some officials and experts on the topic. Baseline data was collected from January to April in 2017. The study shows that the overall awareness and response of the problem was only 51%. It indicates that the elements of climate change and disasters are not clear to the resident peoples and even the educated citizens. Finally, it may be concluded that planting trees around their houses to reduce the intensity of storm surge attack, reduce erosion, diminish pressure on natural forest for household consumption as fuelwood. Unplanned industries and excess use of natural resources should be demoralized. Raising homestead and plinth level of houses to mitigate severe effects of coastal flooding. Farming of different varieties of climate resilient HYV crops, nationwide programs should be conducted to increase the awareness of the people about the elements of climate change.

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