Vulnerability to Disaster: Pressure and Release Model for Climate Change Hazards in Bangladesh
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M. A. Awal, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
Despite the various types of climate change shocks like flood, tropical cyclone with storm surge, tsunami, salinity, drought, water logging etc that affect Bangladesh agriculture and coastal enterprises as well as socio-economy of the country, however no any standard hazard model has been reported yet to analyze the people’s vulnerabilities to disaster due to aforesaid events. The interactions between ecological and social systems are usually complex. How vulnerabilities with root causes, dynamic pressures and unsafe conditions contribute to form a hazard or disaster due to climate change. Therefore, the aim of this study was to adapt the climate change shocks and stresses to a conceptual framework like Pressure and Release (PAR) model. Lack of access to political power, decision making, and resources, insecure livelihoods, environmental degradation, and ineffectiveness of the state approach to disaster risk reduction are some of the major factors that lead to increasing climate vulnerability. The mechanisms were adopted with a PAR model. Both slow onset changes in climate and unpredictable weather shocks cause large scale disaster to life and livelihood of the people. Social safety net service may help to relief some pressures due to climate change by coordinating disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.
Climate Change, Disaster, Pressure and Release Model, Risk, Social Safety Net, Vulnerability
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