Date/Time
Date(s) - 29/10/2015
11:00 - 12:00
Location
ICCCAD Head Office
Categories
The next instalment of the ICCCAD Seminar will take place on Thursday, October 29. Syed Hafizur Rahman will be presenting in a seminar titled ‘Stocktaking and assessment of adapted technologies and their promotional barriers related to water use in coastal areas of Bangladesh’.
About the seminar
Bangladesh lies on the edges of various natural disasters due to a number of hydro-geophysical and socioeconomic reasons and has been tested further by the aggravated impacts associated with climate change. Relationship between climate change and water resources are inherently complex where water act as a medium to influence the earth’s ecosystem. Climate change has substantial impact on freshwater resources both in terms of triggering the demand and as well as reducing their availability at various temporal and spatial scales. Around 53% of the coastal areas of Bangladesh are affected by salinity and has been increasing day by day. Community people, GO and NGO organizations have been working to deal with these water stressors in the coastal areas through different interventions. Some of which evolved from indigenous knowledge and some are introduced by various institutional actors. Interventions for managing fresh water in saline prone areas range from the very old and traditional techniques at the household level to emerging high tech interventions at community level. A complete list and an integrated assessment on social, economical and cultural feasibility of these interventions are absent in literature. Along with water sector vulnerabilities assessment imposed by climate change, the study will generate in depth knowledge on the fresh water supply options and existing interventions in the saline prone coastal areas to assess and to identify their potential benefits, distribution patterns, enablers and barriers, further demand and capacity based needs for improved and/or newer technologies as appropriate to confront these superseding crisis for freshwater in selected most vulnerable areas. Secondary information from the existing literature (literature review) and collection of first hand information from the ground by using participatory action research tools (both qualitative and quantitative) will form the basis of the methods and methodologies for conducting this research study. The presentation will share the insights of the study to get your feedback, comments and recommendations especially with regard to methodologies for further fine tuning.
About the speaker
Syed Hafizur Rahman is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. He obtained his PhD Degree from School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham University, UK. He has been involved in multi-disciplinary environmental research since 1994-1995. His research interests have been on water related climate change issues, climate change adaptation technologies, water resource management, abatement of water pollution, treatment of waste water and surface water using electrocoagulation technology. He has developed interest in multidisciplinary research on complex issues relating to climate change and its effects on micro-environment. He has been doing research on vulnerability and impact assessment for climate change, ecosystem based adaptation and sustainable adaptation due to climate change. He has published his academic research outputs in both national and international journals and anthologies.
