Bangladesh: Sea level rise. Flashcards
What is the population of Bangladesh?
156.6 million.
What is the predicted rise in sea level in the next 20 years?
16cm
What is the Sundarbans National Park?
A region in south-west Bangladesh on the delta of the Ganges. It is part of the worlds largest mangrove forest. Home to rare species like the Bengal Tiger.
How many people live in the Sundarbans area?
4 million.
Economically why is the Sundarbans region important?
Agriculture used to grow rice and jute. Also, many tourists visit the area to see natural beauty.
How much of the nations GDP does the agricultural sector make up?
16%
What decrease in industrial output is to be expected if sea level predictions are right?
20%
What are the three ways you respond to a ‘coastal risks’?
Resilience, Mitigation and Adaptation.
What resilient protection methods have been introduced?
Improvements in sanitation to provide clean water, reduce health risk. Road networks improved allowing easy access to the area. Subsidies offered to farmers allows them to cope with growing threat. NGO’s offering safety and response training.
What mitigation strategies have been introduced?
3500km of embankment built. Cyclone warning systems and shelters. Protect mangrove forest logging now illegal, also afforestation schemes protects natural defense.
How is the area adapting to the threat?
New salt resiliant types of rice being grown. Houses now have to be built on stilts. Encouaging non intensive farming methods reduce damage to ecosystem allowing to naturally protect agains sea level rise.
What is the capital of Bangladesh?
Dhaka
What past example can we use to access the risk posed by sea level rise?
2007 Cyclone Sidr.
How many of Bangladesh’s 64 districts did Cyclone Sidr flood?
30.
How many deaths did Cyclone Sidr cause?
130,000
