TY - CHAP
T1 - From risk to opportunity
T2 - Climate change and flood policy in Bangladesh
AU - Huq, Muhammad Jahedul
AU - Bracken, Louise
N1 - Funding information: The first author of this chapter is grateful to Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation for their unconditional financial support to pursue MSc in Risk and Environmental Hazards at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University, and this chapter is part of that MSc thesis.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - This study identifies current gaps and opportunities of existing flood regulatory frameworks and national climate change strategies of Bangladesh. In so doing, the research develops a framework to reconcile the interest of land, water, and people in order to reduce the vulnerability of extreme flooding and develop strategies for future flood management. The study reveals that the existing floodregulatory framework is only effective for relief and response during times of flooding but has significant gaps and inadequate provisions to increase communities’ adaptive capacity and resilience to deal with future flooding vulnerability under climate change. The flood management system also suffers from a lack of coordination, complex institutional frameworks, and budgetary constraints. The findings of the study also reveal that people’s/communities’ participation is at a very early state in flood-related project formulation and implementation, and they are totally absent at the level of flood management committees. In addition, the study strongly urges introduction of evidence-based flood policy formulation to reconcile the interest of land, water, and people. Working in this way will give people and communities a voice in the decisionmaking process, ensure the participation of vulnerable people in decision-making around flooding, and take immediate initiatives to fill the existing gaps and weaknesses of flood management system in Bangladesh.
AB - This study identifies current gaps and opportunities of existing flood regulatory frameworks and national climate change strategies of Bangladesh. In so doing, the research develops a framework to reconcile the interest of land, water, and people in order to reduce the vulnerability of extreme flooding and develop strategies for future flood management. The study reveals that the existing floodregulatory framework is only effective for relief and response during times of flooding but has significant gaps and inadequate provisions to increase communities’ adaptive capacity and resilience to deal with future flooding vulnerability under climate change. The flood management system also suffers from a lack of coordination, complex institutional frameworks, and budgetary constraints. The findings of the study also reveal that people’s/communities’ participation is at a very early state in flood-related project formulation and implementation, and they are totally absent at the level of flood management committees. In addition, the study strongly urges introduction of evidence-based flood policy formulation to reconcile the interest of land, water, and people. Working in this way will give people and communities a voice in the decisionmaking process, ensure the participation of vulnerable people in decision-making around flooding, and take immediate initiatives to fill the existing gaps and weaknesses of flood management system in Bangladesh.
KW - Bangladesh
KW - Climate change adaptation
KW - Disaster risk reduction
KW - Flood
KW - Resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84944526076&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38670-1_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38670-1_33
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84944526076
SN - 9783642386695
SP - 1023
EP - 1047
BT - Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
ER -