Water in Distress: Exploring The Adverse Effects of Flood and Adaptation Strategies in Kalpur, Bangladesh
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Adaptation, Flood, Impact, VulnerabilityAbstract
As well as being vulnerable to floods due to its geography, Bangladesh faces a higher risk of flooding associated with climate change. This article aims to explain the adverse impacts of floods on the overall ecology in the local context of Bangladesh, including accommodation and rehabilitation issues, damage to agriculture and infrastructure, increased vulnerability of domestic animals, difficulties in social relations and religious practices, health problems, water crisis, and livelihood and economic problems. However, people in that area tend to adopt different adaptation strategies, such as, changing livelihood strategies, alternative accommodation, floating agriculture, harvesting rainwater, creating net fencing, travelling by boat or raft, receiving relief assistance, taking refuge in schools and storing food to adapt to the damage associated with floods.
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