Sundarbans and its Ecosystem Services

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir is a professor at the Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and is currently holding the charge of the Chairman of the Department. He is the chairperson of Unnayan Onneshan— a Dhaka based multidisciplinary think-tank, vice chairperson of IUCN Asia Regional Members Committee and chairperson of IUCN National Committee of Bangladesh. He has led numerous projects for diverse organisations including governments, development partners and international organisations at home and abroad. His latest books are Numbers and Narratives in Bangladesh’s Economic Development (2021), Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries: State, Citizenship and Transformation (2021), and the edited volume, COVID-19 and Bangladesh: Response, Rights & Resilience (2021).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Sundarbans as our mind.- Chapter 2: Current state of terrestrial ecosystems: Evidence of resource vulnerability.- Chapter 3: Current state of biodiversity in marine and coastal ecosystems of the Sundarbans.- Chapter 4: Traditional knowledge and customary sustainable practices in terrestrial ecosystems.-  Chapter 5: Traditional knowledge and customary sustainable practices in coastal and marine ecosystems.- Chapter 6: Multiple values of ecosystem services and human well-being.- Chapter 7: Multiple values of nature and transformational pathways.- Chapter 8: Climate change and its impact: Sundarbans as a Natural Wall.- Chapter 9: Biodiverse adaptation to Climate Change: Community-based mangrove Agro Aqua Silvi (CMAAS) Culture.- Chapter 10: Traditional Resource Users and Claiming of Rights.- Chapter 11: Resilience and TRUs Contribution to SDGs and Aichi Biodiversity Targets.- Chapter 12: Human-nature Cooperation for Well-being: Community Understanding on ‘One Health Approach’ in COVID-19 Era.- Chapter 13: Conclusions: A post 2020 biodiversity takeaway.