Climate Change in Bangladesh

Harun Rashid is emeritus professor at the department of geography and earth science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Bimal Kanti Paul is a professor of geography at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

• PrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Impacts on Air Temperature, Precipitation, and Sea level riseChapter 3: Impacts on Tropical Cyclones and Coping Strategies Chapter 4: Impacts on Floods and Coping StrategiesChapter 5: Impacts on Droughts and Coping StrategiesChapter 6: Climate Change Victims and Climate JusticeChapter 7: Climate RefugeesChapter 8: Confronting Climate Change through Disaster Management InitiativesChapter 9: Confronting Sea Level Rise through AdaptationChapter 10: Summary and Conclusion

[The authors] provide a fascinating, rich, and engrossing account of climatic disasters and climate change in Bangladesh. . . .A real international dialogue is the only way we are going to face the challenge of climate change and take on the perils and promise of the twenty-first century. Rashid and Paul’s book makes a compelling case for why we have to do it and how we can succeed. . . Rashid and Paul present a grounded but broad view of climate change in Bangladesh, judiciously assessing the key debates and recognizing (but never drowning in) complexity. [The] authors combine an authoritative voice with meticulous documentation. . . .Climate Change in Bangladesh offers compelling empirical insights and provides a welcome synthesis and interrogation of impacts of the climate change in the country. . . .[The book] could not be more timely. The book puts the problems of climate change in an increasingly interconnected and increasingly environmentally riven Bangladesh into useful and illuminating context. It brings together history, geography, government, and with no small amount of passion.