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Climate Change and Community Resilience

Insights from South Asia

  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

  • Provides heterogeneous, locally grounded community solutions to climate change in different institutional settings

  • Thematically binds the geographical diversity of the South Asia region

  • Essential reading for anyone looking for examples of adaptation and resilience from the grassroots

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Disaster Risk Reduction

    1. Frameworks, Stories and Learnings from Disaster Management in Bangladesh

      • Md Rumi Shammin, Remeen Firoz, Rashadul Hasan
      Pages 239-256Open Access
    2. Using Climate Information for Building Smallholder Resilience in India

      • Madhavan Manjula, Raj Rengalakshmi, Murugaiah Devaraj
      Pages 275-289Open Access
    3. Climate Resiliency and Location-Specific Learnings from Coastal Bangladesh

      • Sakib Mahmud, A. K. Enamul Haque, Kolpona De Costa
      Pages 309-321Open Access
  2. Urban Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
    2. Making Urban Waste Management and Drainage Sustainable in Nepal

      • Mani Nepal, Bishal Bharadwaj, Apsara Karki Nepal, Madan S. Khadayat, Ismat Ara Pervin, Rajesh K. Rai et al.
      Pages 325-338Open Access
    3. Do Community-Based Institutions Spur Climate Adaptation in Urban Informal Settlements in India?

      • Upasna Sharma, Bijal Brahmbhatt, Harshkumar Nareshkumar Panchal
      Pages 339-356Open Access
    4. Waste Segregation at Source: A Strategy to Reduce Waterlogging in Sylhet

      • Muntaha Rakib, Nabila Hye, A. K. Enamul Haque
      Pages 369-383Open Access
  3. Alternative Livelihood

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 385-385
    2. Community-Based Tourism as a Strategy for Building Climate Resilience in Bhutan

      • Ngawang Dendup, Kuenzang Tshering, Jamyang Choda
      Pages 387-398Open Access
    3. Climate Change, Ecological Stress and Livelihood Choices in Indian Sundarban

      • Santadas Ghosh, Sreejit Roy
      Pages 399-413Open Access
    4. Adaptation to Climate Change by Vegetable Farmers in Sri Lanka

      • R. P. Dayani Gunathilaka, P. S. M. Kalani J. Samarakoon
      Pages 415-430Open Access
    5. Resilience Through Crop Diversification in Pakistan

      • Adnan Nazir, Heman Das Lohano
      Pages 431-442Open Access
  4. Moving Forward

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 443-443
    2. Communities, Climate Change Adaptation and Win–Win Solutions

      • A. K. Enamul Haque, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Mani Nepal, Md Rumi Shammin
      Pages 445-454Open Access
  5. Correction to: Climate Change and Community Resilience

    • A. K. Enamul Haque, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Mani Nepal, Md Rumi Shammin
    Pages C1-C1Open Access
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 455-460

About this book

This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it accessible to a diverse audience from academics and researchers to practitioners in various governmental, non-governmental and international agencies. At a time when climate change presents humanity with a gloomy future, the stories of innovation, creativity, grassroots engagement and locally applicable solutions highlighted in this book provides insights into hopeful ways of approaching climate solutions. South Asian countries have been dealing with the impact of climate change for decades and thus offer valuable learning opportunities for developing countries within and beyond the region as well as many western countries that are confronting the wrath of climate induced natural disasters more recently.

SANDEE has been a pioneer in the development of research and training in environmental economics and related issues in South Asia and Prof Maler has been throughout SANDEE's history, its mentor, and its strongest supporter. Many young economists in South Asia have significantly benefited from Prof Maler's guidance and inputs. The present volume on “Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia” is a fitting tribute and an excellent reflection of Prof Maler's contributions to the SANDEE programme throughout his association.

- Mahesh Banskota, Professor, Development Studies, School of Arts, Kathmandu University

This comprehensive volume aptly identifies grassroots initiatives as the core of the problem of adaptation to climate change. The analysis of the different experiments is lucid, inclusive, and full of interesting detail. The methodologies used and the subjects covered span a range of frameworks and narratives. Put together, the studies are a fitting tribute to Karl-Goran Maler, who spent years putting his impeccable expertise to use for the cause of enhancing research in South Asia.

- Kanchan Chopra, Former Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and Fellow, SANDEE

The slow international policy response to climate change elevates the importance of understanding how communities can respond to climate change’s many threats. This unusually accessible volume provides that understanding for South Asia while being relevant to the rest of the world. Its emphasis on research by scholars from the region makes it a wonderful tribute to Prof. Karl-Göran Mäler, who contributed so much to the growth of environmental economics research capacity in South Asia.

- Jeffrey R. Vincent, Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics & Management, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, USA

Keywords

  • Community Resilience
  • Community Based Climate Change Adaptation
  • Climate Migration
  • Open Access
  • Poverty
  • South Asia
  • SDGs

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    A. K. Enamul Haque

  • Goa Business School, Goa University, Taleigao, India

    Pranab Mukhopadhyay

  • South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Lalitpur, Nepal

    Mani Nepal

  • Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA

    Md Rumi Shammin

About the editors

Dr. A. K. Enamul Haque is a Professor of Economics at East West University (Dhaka, Bangladesh), Director of Economic Research Group, Executive Director of Asian Center for Development, a Member of the Steering and Advisory Committees of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) and a member of the South Asian Network for Environmental Law and Policy (SANEL). He is an environmental economist with teaching, research and popular articles on climate change, agriculture and urban issues in developing countries with a focus on South Asia in general and Bangladesh in particular.

Dr. Pranab Mukhopadhyay is a Professor of Economics at the Goa Business School and the Program Director (Economics) at Goa University, India. He did his graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta and his master and doctoral work at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a Fellow of SANDEE and INSEE and the former President of INSEE (2016-18). Earlier he worked as Environmental Economist at IUCN, Nepal. He has also been a consultant to ICIMOD, Foundation for Ecological Security, and GIZ India. He works in the area of global change, managing commons, nature and society, sustainable development, ecosystem services, and economic growth.

Dr. Mani Nepal is SANDEE Program Coordinator and Lead Economist at ICIMOD. Earlier, he worked as Associate Professor of Economics, Tribhuvan University; Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, USA; Visiting Professor, Kathmandu University; and Adjunct Professor, Agriculture and Forestry University. He also worked as Senior Economist at the Department of Finance and Administration, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and as an Economist at the Nepal Foundation for Advanced Studies, and Agricultural Projects Service Center. Dr. Nepal is a Fulbright scholar who received MS degree in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and PhD in Economics from the University of New Mexico, USA.

Dr. Md Rumi Shammin is a Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA where he served as the Chair of the program between 2015 and 2019. He has a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign and a Master’s in Natural Resources with a minor in Agricultural & Biological Engineering from Cornell University. Dr. Shammin’s scholarship focuses on energy and climate change analysis; climate adaptation and resilience building in developing countries; behavioral and human dimensions of the environment; ecological economics; refugee camp environmental management; environmental justice; and urban sustainability.

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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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