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This chapter investigates biodiversity adaptation options in response to climate change and presents a novel strategy called Community-based Mangrove Agro Aqua Silvi (CMAAS) culture, which was developed by local communities living near the Sundarbans forest region. CMAAS culture is an alternative to Commercial Shrimp (CS) culture in which a subset of the community that is prone to natural disasters attempts to harvest a few floral and faunal species present in the forest and on lands that were previously utilised for other purposes. The chapter takes into account numerous factors related to CMAAS culture such as climate change patterns, natural disasters, intensive shrimp cultivation and salinity intrusion and goes on to present a schematic diagram to explain their drivers and impacts and how they are linked to the emerging CMAAS culture. It demonstrates that CMAAS culture following traditional knowledge and customary practices helps protect biodiversity resources of the Sundarbans and has emerged as one of the best substitutes for traditional Commercial Shrimp (CS) cultivation.
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The Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) approach was used to compare the economic returns in this case.
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This chapter has mainly been prepared based on the research findings of a study conducted as a project of the Unnayan Onneshan under the supervision of Dr. Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, and the research team included Mohammad Abdul Baten and Md. Humayun Kabir who previously worked as researchers at the Unnayan Onneshan
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Titumir, R.A.M., Afrin, T. (2022). Biodiverse Adaptation to Climate Change: Community-Based Mangrove Agro Aqua Silvi (CMAAS) Culture. In: Titumir, R.A.M. (eds) Sundarbans and its Ecosystem Services. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3000-3_9
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