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Md. Abdus Sattar Lecturer Department of Resource Management Faculty of Disaster Management Patuakhali Science and Technology University
Climate Change and Human Mobility in context of the southern part of Bangladesh
Abstract
Climate change has become a topic of talk of time. Bangladesh due to different geo-social aspect becomes one of the most vulnerable countries (MVCs) to the harsh reality of climate change. The southern part of Bangladesh is one of the special pocket regions which suffer a lot from the ravage devastation effect of climate change. Climate change is acting as a distinct catalyst which accelerated the frequencies and intensities of natural disasters in the recent past. These devastating natural disasters cause widespread loss of lives, damage of properties and degrade the entire environment and ultimately people have lost their means of livelihoods, habitat and finally they decide to leave from the place of their born to a safer place for seeking a better livelihood options and opportunities for leading to a better and steady living. Floods and others natural disasters in coastal region of Bangladesh are assumed to cause migration in a simple manner: A natural hazard displaces people by destroying their land, houses and other tangible goods and assets (Haque 1997, p. 48). This report is mainly concentrated on to learn the relationship between climate change and human mobility. This report investigates that how climate change directly or indirectly influenced people to be migrated from their origin. Key words: Climate change, Human mobility, Conflict, Livelihood security, Southern part
Climate Change and Human Mobility in context of the southern part of Bangladesh
Table of Contents
Abstract................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 General objective .............................................................................................................................................. 4 Specific objective ................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 Background of the study ................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3.1 Climate change and human mobility ......................................................................................... 5 1.3.2 Climate change, human mobility and southern part of Bangladesh ........................................... 5
1.4 Mode of Human mobility in southern region ................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Conceptual Model............................................................................................................................................. 6
2.1.1 Climate change and livelihood security ..................................................................................... 6 2.1.2 Climate change and social conflict: conceptual model .............................................................. 7
3.1 Vulnerable groups and cause of Vulnerability .................................................................................................. 8 3.2 Causes of their vulnerabilities .......................................................................................................................... 8
3.2.1 Small/Marginal farmer, landless farmers vulnerabilities .......................................................... 8 3.2.2 Vulnerabilities of fishermen ....................................................................................................... 8 3.2.3 Child vulnerabilities ................................................................................................................... 8 3.2.4 Womens vulnerabilities ............................................................................................................. 9 3.2.5 Specific vulnerability of the women folk ................................................................................... 9 3.2.6 Disable and elderly people ......................................................................................................... 9
3.3 Impact of climate change in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh .......................................................... 9 3.4 Future Projection of Climate Change Impacts in the southern part of Bangladesh ........................................ 10 3.5 Current human mobility status in southern region .......................................................................................... 11 3.6 Future .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 3.7 Current status of Climate change induced displaced people and their condition ............................................ 12 3.8 Relationship .................................................................................................................................................... 13
3.8.1 Loss of livelihood: Livelihood is mainly to unidirectional that means there is little or in ...... 13
3.8.2 How climate change effect on livelihood sector? ........................................................................................ 13
3.8.2.1 Agricultural land- Agriculture is one of the major ways of livelihoods earning of the ......... 13 3.8.2.2 Fresh water reservoir- Due to climate change and its associated risks and disasters ............ 13 3.8.2.3 Housing- Housing sector is very much vulnerable to different natural disasters. ................. 14 3.8.2.4 Social facilities and infrastructures- Presence of different social services and ..................... 14 3.8.2.5 Conflict- Climate change and its resultant different natural disaster exert acute .................. 14 3.8.2.6 Water and sanitation facilities- Water and sanitation facilities are other promising ............. 14 3.8.2.7 Livestock rearing facilities- Due to climate change and associated natural disaster ............ 14
4.1 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................... 15 4.2Recommendations ........................................................................................................................................... 15 References............................................................................................................................................................ 16 3
Climate Change and Human Mobility in context of the southern part of Bangladesh
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Introduction
Bangladesh has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and the resultant displacement of population from its coastal areas (Roy, 2008). Climate change is a phenomenon already in progression in Bangladesh. Its coastal region i.e. the southern part of Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts because of its geographical location, high population density, high levels of poverty, and the reliance of many livelihoods on climate-sensitive sectors, particularly rural agriculture and fisheries. (Climate Change Cell, DOE, June 2006). This country has already begun to lose considerable amount of its landmass to the rising sea levels in the coastal areas (Rahman, 2009). The population in the coastal belts are highly dependent upon agriculture, or land and as all these sectors are very much climate change sensitive so that they become essay target of the natures rampage like frequent floods, cyclones, riverbank erosion, saline water effect so to speak, thus the main sources of livelihood is seriously disrupted and as a result people of the affected region are forced to migrate from their living place to new destination for instance to already crowded urban areas. This situation is adding further hardship on the resource constrained urban areas of the country. A considerable amount of research has been conducted on the possible impact of climate change on Bangladesh but there is lack of study to determine the nexus between climate change and human mobility in context of southern coastal region of Bangladesh which area is considered as the hotspots of climate change related impacts. In this context, the paper proposes to study to determine how climate change poses the potential attribute to influenced people to leave their place of residence to new place for the sake of better livelihood options, better lifestyle and other essential amenities. To work with this context the paper proposes to conduct a study in the coastal southern part of Bangladesh to see the impact of climate change on migration. Some concrete recommendations for providing potential solutions to human mobility mainly caused by climate change are provided at the end of the report.
Specific objective
To identify the vulnerable groups to climate change in context of southern region of Bangladesh; To know the effect of climate change on different sectors in the southern region of Bangladesh; To find out the nexus between climate change, livelihood security, social conflict and human mobility; To provide some recommendations that may be treated as a good resort to managing the problems.
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Climate Change and Human Mobility in context of the southern part of Bangladesh
Migration occurs at a variety of scales1. 2. 3. 4. Intercontinental (between countries) Intraregional (between countries on a given continent) Interregional (within countries) Rural to urban migration (movement of people from the countryside to cities in search of opportunities)
Chapter: 2 Methodology
This report is made based on the available present literature regarding this topic. Literature are mostly present the effect of climate change only but not address the issues of climate change related migration problem. This report finds the following conceptual framework as the chain of climate change induced migration.
Result
Low income
Ultimate result
Migration
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2.1.2 Climate change and social conflict: conceptual model Climate change-exert pressure on scare natural resources-More people depend on this resources-resource extraction directly or indirectly dominated by powerful elite of the society-deprivation-low living status-poverty- social conflict, violence, and instabilitydecision of migration
Example: freshwater
issue
Sector
Water sector
Distribution Dispute
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Climate Change and Human Mobility in context of the southern part of Bangladesh
Disruptions in school attendance Increase child labor and juvenile delinquency Increase early marriage
3.2.4 Womens vulnerabilities The impacts of climate change will be falling more heavily on the women and girls of Bangladesh particularly for coastal section women. Womens contributions to rural production activities include raising seedlings, gathering seeds, post-harvesting, cow fattening and milking, goat farming, backyard poultry rearing, pisciculture, agriculture, horticulture, food processing, cane and bamboo works, silk reeling, handloom weaving, garment making, fishnet making, coir production and handicrafts. A significant number of rural women, particularly from extremely poor landless households, also engage in paid labor in construction and earthwork and field-based agricultural work, activities that traditionally have fallen within the male domain. (Case Study: Gender Human Security and Climate Change in Bangladesh Womens Environment and Development Organization- WEDO, 2009). 3.2.5 Specific vulnerability of the women folk Have to face the harsh effect of intra-household food insecurity Droughts and flooding can be detrimental to women for keeping livestock or poultry and homestead vegetable gardens which are the main sources of income for rural women Increase additional work to fetch water from a greater distance Harassed by male in time of collecting water and staying in shelter Provide extra care to ailing patients and comfort to children by counseling them Lack of facilities in shelter 3.2.6 Disable and elderly people Cannot move easily without other helps in a disaster period Need extra care Risk of diseases and death from thermal stress Increase stress of work if they have no earning person in their family
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Tropical cyclones and storm surges Spread of diseases Prolonged heat wave and cold wave Erratic rainfall Coastal inundation (Source: Climate Variability and Change in Bangladesh Impacts, Vulnerability and Risks, Key Facts, Climate Change Cell, 2006)
3.4 Future Projection of Climate Change Impacts in the southern part of Bangladesh
Rainfall patterns are changed due to climate change crops yields are expected to drop significantly. Crop production will decrease 30% in 2100. Production of rice & wheat will reduce 8.8%, and 32% within 2050 respectively (Climate Change Cell, DOE, June 2006). There are 13% areas are salinity at Bagerhat, Khulna and Sathkhira, the southwestern coastal districts of Bangladesh at present which will increase 16% in 2050 and 18% in 2100. Corals are vulnerable to thermal stress. If the sea surface temperature increases 1-3 C then corals bleaching will occur frequently (Climate Change Cell, DOE, June 2006). About 75% area of mangrove forest, Sunderban (60,007 Sq. km) will submerse if the sea level will increase 45 cm. If the sea level rise 1 m then the islands of Bay of Bengal and whole Sunderland will destroy including its fauna & flora (Climate Change Cell, DOE, June 2006). Death rate of shrimps fingerlings will increase if the wat er temperature is more than 32C (CEGIS) Diseases of fish may increase Carps culture may reduce due to saline water intrusion in the ponds and open water bodies as a result production of sweet water fish will shrink and extinct if the sea level rise more floods are contaminating water. Increasing water borne diseases such as cholera, diarrhea etc. More droughts are decreasing food production. Increasing malnutrition More greenhouse gases are increasing air pollution. Rising respiratory diseases Rise of temperature will favor for pest and pathogen that will increase dengue, malaria, diarrhea etc. Injuries, disabilities, psychosocial stress and death are becoming severe for more floods, fires, droughts, heat waves & cyclones High salinity in water will affect human health. In Bangladesh every year, rivers engulf enormous agriculture fields and homesteads, makes the peoples homeless. Those who have no way to live in the locality migrate to urban areas and live in slum with unhygienic conditions.
If the sea level rise is taken place per the estimation Low-lying non-embankment coastal area may be completely inundated It will increase the risk of coastal salinity Scarcity of saline free drinking water will increase highly Current agricultural practices will change
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3.6 Future
Currently, almost 40 million people live in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. Loss of coastal land to the sea in this vulnerable zone currently predicted to reach up to 3% by the 2030s, 6% in the 2050s and 13% by 2080 is likely to generate a steady flow of displaced people (Tahera, 2009). The trend of major flood occurrences indicates that one major event has been hitting the country every 3 years from 1990 to 2009. This used to hit every 4 years between 1970 and 1989. Data over the last 20 years (1990-2009) reveals that Bangladesh has been experiencing major cyclones almost every year since 1990, which was used be every 3 years between 1970 and 1989 (Source: BBS, 2007). According to the ranking of International Strategy for
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Disaster Reduction, in terms of human exposure, Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country to floods, the third most to tsunami and the sixth most to cyclones. Flood is the biggest disaster, displacing one-fourth of the total population. The rate of increase over the years is about 6% of the total population on average. With respect to human exposure to cyclones, the percentage of displacements is low (about 2% of the population). Future displacement has been estimated on the basis of population growth (UNDP, 2008) and the proportions of displacement. Floods being the dominant contributor in population displacement, they have been considered to estimate future displacements. In this case, proportions of displacement by cyclone and drought are kept constant, considering lower proportions compared to flood. Therefore, Bangladesh is expected to have massive environmental displacement, which is calculated to be about 49 million, 63 million and 78 million in 2010, 2015 and 2020 respectively. The growth in environmental displacement is found to be 42% of the total populations in 2020, a startling fact indeed. Bangladesh has already been facing 1 or 2 severe disasters every year. For instance, 2007 is well recognized for the impact of two disasters, floods and Cyclone Sidr. A dire outcome for Bangladesh with a combination of 3 or more major natural events in the future may not be a total surprise for Bangladesh. Such environmentally displaced people are not only becoming homeless, but their livelihoods are also being threatened. These circumstances make them economically vulnerable, leading to increased poverty and insecurity (Tahera, 2009).
3.7 Current status of Climate change induced displaced people and their condition
The consequences of cyclone Aila (2009) in terms of human mobility The cyclone Aila, which struck on 25 May 2009, caused enormous loss of properties, infrastructure, social and economic disruption, environmental degradation, etc. in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. A total of 190 people were killed and estimated 4.82 million people were affected in total 11 coastal districts (Tahera, 2009). The cyclone and tidal surges collapsed the coastal embankments at several points inundating the vast areas (DMB 2009). The houses, livestock, assets, crops, etc. were washed away by the floodwater. Over 1,700 km of flood embankments have been damaged by the cyclone and tidal surges. The people, who lost everything, left their homesteads and took shelter in the makeshift houses on roads, damaged embankments, markets, growth center, schools or even open sky (Sarawat 2009). The embankments, built in the 1960s, had been a source of protection to the coastal people from the rivers and tidal flooding (Sarawat 2009). For the last 20-30 years, these embankments had been cut at several points to enter the saline water to the cultivable lands for shrimp cultivation. Besides, these embankments had not been maintained properly for past years by the concerned authority. Therefore, these vulnerable embankments had breached easily against the recent cyclone Aila inundating the large area and making thousands of people homeless. The precarious situation created by cyclone Aila has resulted in increased migration to the cities or other areas. More than 400,000 people have been reportedly displaced by the cyclone in the coastal areas of Bangladesh (Wapedia 2010). According to the ECHO (European Commissions Humanitarian Aid Office) partners assessment, about 40,000 people migrated due to Cyclone Aila from the Koyra upazila (subdistrict) of Khulna District in Bangladesh (ECHO 2009). The figure is around 30,000 in Paikgacha, 18,000 in Dacope and 12,000 in Batiaghata upazila. International Organization for Migration has estimated that a number of 11,118 families in Dacope upazila and 5,533 families in Koyra upazila were displaced in November 2009 (IOM 2010). Along with the internal displacement, some people of the coastal areas are reported to migrate to the neighboring countries like India (Gain 2010). Even after one year of cyclone Aila (as of
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August, 2010), most of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have been living on damaged embankments and other high strips of land. Poor has become extremely poor and many nonpoor have been thrown into poverty and food insecurity by the destruction of Aila (Mallick 2009). As the drinking water sources and sanitary latrines have been damaged, people are living in unhealthy and unhygienic condition without adequate food, pure drinking water and proper sanitary facilities (Dhaka Mirror, 2010). The cyclone Aila caused huge damages of ponds, where community people used to store sweet water between September and November each year and use that water for the rest of the year.
3.8 Relationship
Factors influence migration 3.8.1 Loss of livelihood: Livelihood is mainly to unidirectional that means there is little or in some case no variations at all. People of this part of the country are mainly depend on environmental resources for their livelihoods. Most of the people depend on agriculture, fisheries and its associated sectors. As all these sectors are treated as climate sensitive sectors so that there always prevailing the changes being of damaged of these sectors and its output from the ravage impact of different natural disasters like floods, storm surges, cyclones, river bank erosion ,agricultural drought and associated risks as well. The main occupation of the most of the people in this region is mainly based on agriculture and fisheries and its associated processing activities. As there lack of livelihood variation there always chance of livelihood insecurity that ultimate reproduced other related problems.
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the area to migrate to safer place which can provide them better opportunities of occupation and other facilities. This same sort of result is finding in the different coastal district like Satkira, Patuakhali, Borguna, Bagherhat which areas seriously affected by devastating natural disasters like cyclone Sidr and Alia in the recent past. These sort of climate change influenced events produced huge amounts of climate migrants in that regions. 3.8.2.3 Housing- Housing sector is very much vulnerable to different natural disasters. People of the southern part of Bangladesh always experience devastating cyclone, flood, and river bank erosion and so on, all these directly and indirectly impact on the living shelter. As people lost their houses they are somehow influenced to leave the place and as these sort of disasters happening again and again people have no other option to do. It is well recognized when a community faces same type of disasters and their capacity is limited to build resilient infrastructure they are interested to leave the place as a result migration is taken place. 3.8.2.4 Social facilities and infrastructures- Presence of different social services and infrastructural facilities attract people to come and lead living in an area, in the same manner lack of the services influenced people or make them reluctant to leave the places. Different climate change induced natural disasters with ever dirtying power affect not only the agriculture or related sectors but it also affect the social and other infrastructure of the southern part of Bangladesh. Study shows different natural disasters bring immense loss to social and other communication infrastructure in a massive scale like destroy school, hospitals, mosque and other religious places, roads, bridges, embankment and others all these supports a lot to the residence to lead live but as disasters hammer this again and again people influenced to leave their place of origin to new place for better living. 3.8.2.5 Conflict- Climate change and its resultant different natural disaster exert acute pressure on the limited resource in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh. As there is limited resource stock for huge population, ultimate result of completion over scare resource and its lead to conflict and finally the poorer people cannot survive in this completion and they are finally influenced to leave the place. 3.8.2.6 Water and sanitation facilities- Water and sanitation facilities are other promising sector which is very much affected by the devastating natural disaster in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh. Natural disasters highly destroy these facilities and people somehow influenced to leave the place coupled with realizing the other problems like food insecurity. 3.8.2.7 Livestock rearing facilities- Due to climate change and associated natural disaster pose very much threats to livestock sectors specially that are at domestic level. The southern part of Bangladesh represents huge possession of livestock by each family as this region is agrarian. Climate change exert huge pressure on the fodder supply of the livestock and bring different diseases for the livestock, aspeople losing their tools of agriculture and income source their chances of food insecurity and livelihood insecurity and they are interested to leave the place where they can find suitable solutions of this problem and ultimately they decide to leave the place.
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4.2 Recommendations
Some concrete recommendations for providing potential solutions to human mobility mainly caused by climate change Communication and coordination between GOs, affected communities and other relevant stakeholders To provide increased support and engagement of national, regional and international communities for betterment of livelihoods and settlements of climate induced human mobility Policies, strategies and programs should be implemented up to 100% transparency and accountability Cluster village model may be explored as an effective tool to resettle to climate refugees Diversification of livelihoods and patterns of agriculture and associated others as well reinforcing the structural measures Encourage different adaptation techniques Use of different locally available material to reinforce the system susceptible to climate induced ravage events Incorporation and practice of agriculture that will capable to survive and revive with the changing climate Need to build public awareness and education for sustainable solution of this problem International migration of the family member from affected family to climate change Migration to other region where population density is relatively less against region from where people are migrated Integration among different sectors of the government Engagement and support from the regional and international communities for climate displacement in Bangladesh should be enhanced
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Appendix-1
Group Meeting-1 Dated: 16.01.2013(Wednesday) Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Venue: Disaster Management Class room D/101 Chair: Md. Afjal Hossain (Reg. No.-02509) Secretary: S.M. Nizamul Islam (Reg. No.-02508)
Agenda: -Setting of the reports main objectives and specific objectives -Distribution of the task regarding the report
Decision:
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Name Abstract Introduction Conclusion Recommendations References Vulnerable group to climate change induced hazards and disasters; Materials and Methods Nexus between climate change, human mobility and conflict Climate change and livelihood security Effects of Climate change in general essence in the context of southern region of Bangladesh Specific vulnerability of the coastal people to climate change Materials and Methods Climate change and southern part of Bangladesh Future climate change induced human mobility in southern part Present living status of people affected by previous climate induced disasters Issues related to climate induced disasters and displaced people Climate change and human Mobility in the southern part of Bangladesh Mode of Human mobility in the southern part of Bangladesh Current climate change induced human mobility in the southern region Task
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Group Meeting-2 Dated: 27.02.2013(Wednesday) Time: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Venue: Central Shaheed Minor Basement of PSTU Chair: Md. Sohel Mir (Reg. No.-02508) Secretary: RownakJahan (Reg. No.-02510)
Agenda: -Identifying the impact of climate change -Climate Change and Human Mobility and Conflict Relation Linkup -Climate change and livelihood security and models
Decision and outcome: Effects: 2 types 1. Direct example - river erosion etc. 2. Indirect example Productivity damage, Food livelihood pattern change, impact on humanity etc. Chhanda: Vulnerable group identification and causes of vulnerabilities i.e. Farmer, Fisherman, Small trade, Child, Women, Disable, Day labor, Marginalized group etc. Afjal: Farmer climate sensitivity, productions hamper etc.
The topic you are selected for this report is very appropriate for this time in the context of climate change in southern region in Bangladesh. Its help to identify the impact of climate change and the number of migrate people of southern region. It would be better if you add more some recommendation than other parts of this report. I think its too large to understand and it would be better if this report would complete in shortly. Overall I think this report is fruitful with making good combination in all parts. Its pretty good.
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