Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Climate Change Induced Flood and Riverbank Erosion - Couverture souple

Huda, Khondaker Mohammod Shariful; Iqbal, Qazi Shahed

 
9783846536360: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Climate Change Induced Flood and Riverbank Erosion
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3846536369 ISBN 13 : 9783846536360
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

There is significant evidence of frequent and rapid erosion and fast rates of bank line retreat along the river Brahmaputra–Jamuna within Bangladesh. This study is aimed at quantifying the actual rates of bank erosion along the river based on time series analysis of satellite images and historical maps.One of the main problem of the braided Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in Bangladesh is bank erosion, in places leading to hundreds of meters of bank retreat annually. Analysis of the Landsat images shows that, over the whole river, riverine islands most often persist from 1 to 7 years, but 30% have lasted for 14 years or more. Accretion has taken place in the middle and lower reaches north of the east bank and in the extreme north of the west bank between 1973 and 2010. Bangladesh is likely to be among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. The Government of Bangladesh is acutely conscious of this, and has in fact been preparing to face this challenge for several years now. We realize that Climate Change is now an environmental as well as a developmental issue.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

There is significant evidence of frequent and rapid erosion and fast rates of bank line retreat along the river Brahmaputra–Jamuna within Bangladesh. This study is aimed at quantifying the actual rates of bank erosion along the river based on time series analysis of satellite images and historical maps.One of the main problem of the braided Brahmaputra-Jamuna River in Bangladesh is bank erosion, in places leading to hundreds of meters of bank retreat annually. Analysis of the Landsat images shows that, over the whole river, riverine islands most often persist from 1 to 7 years, but 30% have lasted for 14 years or more. Accretion has taken place in the middle and lower reaches north of the east bank and in the extreme north of the west bank between 1973 and 2010. Bangladesh is likely to be among the countries that are the worst affected by climate change. The Government of Bangladesh is acutely conscious of this, and has in fact been preparing to face this challenge for several years now. We realize that Climate Change is now an environmental as well as a developmental issue.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Khondaker Mohammod Shariful Huda is one of the Leading researcher of Bangladesh and has affiliation with several national and international research organizations. Qazi Shahed Iqbal is research fellow for this Project. Since 2008 they are working together in several projects and this is their first joint publication.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3846536369
ISBN 13 
9783846536360
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
72
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