Bangladesh II: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries (eBook)

This volume aims to develop a framework for disaster and climate risk resilient livelihood system in Bangladesh using a policy oriented approach. It highlights the possible impacts of climate change on groundwater based irrigation in the country. Climate change is one of biggest challenges to society. It can lead to serious impacts on production, life and environment on a global scale. Higher temperatures and sea level rise will cause flooding and water salinity problems which will bring about negative effects on agriculture and high risks to industry and socio-economic systems in the future. Climate change will lead to many changes in global development and security especially energy, water, food, society, job, diplomacy, culture, economy and trade. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines climate change as: 'Any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.' Global climate change has emerged as a key issue in both political and economic arenas. It is an increasingly questioned phenomenon, and progressive national governments around the world have started taking action to respond to these environmental concerns.

Professor Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam is a permanent Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment in Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. Prof. Nazrul has completed his PhD. from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Besides, he has completed Two Year Standard JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Prof. Nazrul fields of interest are environmental and ecological modeling, climate change impact on aquatic systems, modeling of phytoplankton transition, harmful algae, and marine ecosystems regarding to deal with hydrodynamic ecosystems coupled model on coastal seas, bays and estuaries, application of computer based programming for numerical simulation modeling etc. Prof. Nazrul is an expert on scientific research techniques and methods to develop the models for environmental systems modeling research. Prof. Nazrul also visited as an invited speakers in several foreign Universities in Japan, USA, Australia, UK, Canada, China, South Korea, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam etc. Prof. Nazrul has been awarded 'Best Young Researcher Award' by the International Society of Ecological Modeling (ISEM) for the outstanding contribution to the Ecological Modeling fields, 2013, Toulouse, France and he has also been awarded 'Best Paper Presenter Award 2010' by SautaiN in Kyoto, Japan. He has also been awarded as a 'Best Poster Presenter Award' in the Techno Ocean Conference, Kobe City Exhibition Hall at Kobe in Japan.  Prof. Nazrul has made more than 40 scholarly presentations in more than 20 countries around the world, authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and authors of 15 books and research volumes. Currently Prof. Nazrul has published an excellent textbook entitled 'Environmental Management of Marine Ecosystems' jointly with Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen by the CRC press (Taylor & Francis). He has also currently published an excellent book entitled: Bangladesh I: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries, Springer Publication, the Netherlands & Germany. Prof. Nazrul is currently serving as an 'Executive Editor-in-Chief' of the journal 'Modeling Earth Systems and Environment', Springer International Publications (Journal no. 40808).