Joseph Hanlon, Manoj Roy, David Hulme

Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change

Keeping Our Heads above Water

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781783086337
• ISBN-10: 1783086335
• Artikelnr.: 49217701

Autorenporträt

Manoj Roy is a lecturer in sustainability at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. Joseph Hanlon is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and a visiting senior research fellow at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. David Hulme is a professor of development studies and executive director of the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Actors, not victims
2. How will climate change hit Bangladesh
3. Taking the lead in negotiations - and moving forward
4. Sea level rise and the vulnerable coast, where farmers know more than engineers
5. Saving lives with cyclone shelters
6. Living with floods
7. Agronomists keeping ahead of climate change
8. No climate change migrants - yet
9. How can the privatised megacity cope with climate change?
10. Is climate change only a problem for the urban poor?
11. Power - political, financial and electrical
12. The front line of climate change
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