Title: Community-based rehabilitation attempt for solution of climate displacement crisis in the coastal area of Bangladesh

Authors: Prabal Barua; Syed Hafizur Rahman

Addresses: Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh ' Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh

Abstract: The climate change induced natural disasters and their effect on humans are habitually considered as the customary social fabric. Climate change is known to impact coastal areas in a variety of ways. Substantially resourceful and densely populated coastal zones of Bangladesh experience numerous extreme climatic hazards like cyclones, tidal surges, floods, salinity intrusion, and erosion, etc. These hazards are already leading to the loss and destruction of housing, land and property, the loss of livelihoods and widespread displacement across the country. The present study has been conducted for assessing the displacement pattern of the island communities, comparison of life and livelihood of displaced people's past and present life and also rehabilitation approaches for solving the crisis of havoc of climate displaced people in the South-Eastern Coast of Bangladesh. The study explored that community-based rehabilitation program not only ensures their permanent settlement but also ensures their dignity, local food, culture, society, harmony, and wisdom.

Keywords: climate change; displacement; coastal zone of Bangladesh; rehabilitation approach.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMRM.2018.094811

International Journal of Migration and Residential Mobility, 2018 Vol.1 No.4, pp.358 - 378

Received: 01 Sep 2017
Accepted: 30 Jan 2018

Published online: 23 Sep 2018 *

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