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Climate change research in Bangladesh: research gaps and implications for adaptation-related decision-making

Journal

REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages 1535-1553

Publisher

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-017-1271-9

Keywords

Bangladesh; Climate change; Adaptation; Vulnerability; Systematic review; Knowledge synthesis

Funding

  1. Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
  2. IPCC
  3. William Dawson Scholar Award, McGill University

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In this paper, we present the results of a systematic literature review of climate change vulnerability-related research conducted in Bangladesh between 1994 and 2017 in order to identify trends and knowledge gaps. Our results identify interesting evolutions in the temporal and spatial scales of study and the nature of spatial and thematic associations, suggesting important knowledge gaps in the existing literature that likely limit understandings of scale-sensitive climate change impacts. We also observed a temporal mismatch between the published studies and policy-making processes focused on adaptation and mitigation and a bias towards the economic aspects of climate change, with less focus on social and environmental issues. Thematically, the climate change-related scholarship in Bangladesh would benefit from more integrative, cross-theme, and transdisciplinary studies, potentially drawing on the different theoretical constructs of vulnerability and adaptation. Such studies will be needed to better support evidence-based public policy and also to more accurately reflect the diversity of knowledge gaps and challenges concerning climatic stresses in Bangladesh at different scales and in different contexts.

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