Amitav Kumar Kundu

Identify Implications of Climate Change & Disaster in Urban Bangladesh Amitav Kumar Kundu

Bangladesh is widely recognized to be one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. It experiences frequent natural disasters, which cause loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic assets, and adverse impacts on lives and livelihoods. Urban poor are extremely vulnerable to this climate change and disaster implications and the implications is even stronger in the case of Dhaka city. Global warming driven climate change affects Dhaka primarily in two ways: through floods and drainage blocking and through heat stress. Objectives of this study are mainly to review the disaster and climate change implications to the urban extreme poor. As extreme poor are deprive from all supports like health, education, shelter etc, they do not have any protection against any kind of disaster. So if any disaster affects the urban poor people lost everything. However, due to health implications people of the urban extreme poor suffers a lot. Within the study it will examine the implications of the disaster and climate change on their health and other basic needs. Also it will find out the existing practices for the copping mechanism from the disaster and climate change.