Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas

Hazards—Volume I

• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9789292692827
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Landwirtschaft

This atlas provides spatial information about Bangladesh and thematic maps necessary for assessing future development investments in the agriculture and water sectors for climate risks and geophysical hazards. It is also intended to support the formulation of co-beneficial options for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management. The two-volume atlas is a major output of the project Establishing a Climate Risk Screening System for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into National Development Budgeting Activities in Bangladesh under the Asian Development Bank's regional knowledge and support (capacity development) technical assistance Action on Climate Change in South Asia (2013–2018). The Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Risk Atlas is composed of Hazards—Volume I and Exposures, Vulnerabilities, and Risks—Volume II.

Exposures

Exposure Assessment

Major exposure units or elements-at-risk considered in this study are population, housing, crops, infrastructure (roads, railways, and ports), and forests. The impacts of disasters on exposure units depend on the latter’s inherent nature and the types of hazards affecting them.

Table II.1: Indicators of Major Exposure Units

BBS = Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, DAE = Department of Agricultural Extension, FD = Forest Department.

^a Year of latest published data available.

A brick field in Bangladesh operates at a riverbank. This allows easy access to transport the final products. However, the small-scale enterprise is highly exposed to river erosion and floods (photo by Nurun Nahar).

Building walls in a woman’s hand. Women in poverty often work in brick industries. With little amount of money and lack of support, they remain marginalized, thus highly exposed to disasters (photo by Khurshid Alam).

Faces of Bangladesh. A child in a village get-together in Faridpur district to discuss the threats of climate change for future generations. Farmers busy harvesting winter vegetables; their livelihood are affected by various climatic hazards (photos by Nurun Nahar [top] and Shawkat Haider [bottom]).

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