Tackling risk and vulnerability in Bangladesh
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- Created on: 03-05-14 15:22
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- Tackling risk and vulnerability in Bangladesh
- The flood risk
- The Himalay's melting causes major threat to villages with floods and avalanches
- Because it is below sea level coastal towns and villages are battered by higher waves
- Bangladesh and global warming
- The IPCC predict that glacier melt in in the Himalaya's will increase flooding
- Increased water temperatures will lead to increasing number of water-borne diseases as glaciers recede
- Coastal areas will be at risk which will destroy crops
- Adapting to global warming
- Technological solutions
- The capital, Dhaka cleared drains and constructed new ones, that would improve drainage
- Sea walls have been built
- Early warnings/flood prediction
- People are evacuated to safer ground so are unlikely to injured
- This can be implemented in the most vulnerable areas who don't have access to internet or TV
- Improve sanitation as death from diseases is the biggest problem
- Technological solutions
- Bangladesh background
- The worlds most densely populated couuntries
- Have three major rivers that burst often
- Is mostly below sea level and is one of the most poor and vulnerable countries in the world
- The flood risk
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