Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Book Launch

NAB 2.06 (New Academic Building), London School of Economics, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ

Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Keeping our Heads above Water, published by Anthem Press, will be launched at the LSE by IKD member Joseph Hanlon.

Living in a low-lying and densely populated country on the front line of climate change, Bangladeshis have taken the lead in adapting to rising temperatures and campaigning to limit further change. Their experience in effectively combating already existing environmental and social challenges means that cyclone shelters and warning systems have cut the fatality rate dramatically; new varieties of rice have raised nutrition levels; women's education has slowed population growth and land is being raised to respond to sea-level rise.

Bangladeshis, then, will keep their heads above water. But how much will it cost? And, as global warming continues to worsen the country's existing environmental problems – causing a rise in sea level, more flooding and stronger, more damaging cyclones – this new book from Dr Manoj Roy (Lancaster University), Dr Joseph Hanlon (OU) and Professor David Hulme (University of Manchester) challenges industrialised countries not only to curb their greenhouse gas emissions, but to pay for the damage they've already caused.

A public lecture followed by a Q&A involving all three authors will also take place at the Global Development Institute in Manchester on 7 December 2016. Find out more about the GDI lecture.

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