Date/Time
Date(s) - 16/06/2016
14:00 - 15:00
Categories
Event Address:
ICCCAD Project Office
Level 5, House 27,
Road 1, Block A,
Bashundhara R/A
Background
Evidence suggests that poor and marginalized farmers in the developing regions can plan more effectively by optimizing their adaptive decisions if they receive the appropriate demand-driven climate information. Therefore, climate services, which involves the production, translation, transfer, and use of climate science knowledge and information in adaptation decision-making, is crucial in addressing the livelihood challenges in many parts of the Global South. This research, focusing on southwest coastal Bangladesh, pursues a systematic and comprehensive examination of the role climate plays in the lives of vulnerable peoples and addresses the implications of user-focused climate services into adaptation decision-making and community resilience. Drawing on literatures of social vulnerability to climate change, climate services, adaptation decision-making and coproduction of climate information, this research asks: How can climate information and services improve adaptation decisions and community resilience in coastal Bangladesh? To answer this broader research question, this research will address three inter-related questions followed by a few sub-questions: (a) how do climate variability and change affect the livelihoods of vulnerable people in southwest coastal Bangladesh; (b) what are the local climate service needs for improved adaptation decision-making and community resilience; and (c) what are effective of climate information delivery systems to local users? Even though this research has a regional focus on southwest coastal Bangladesh, the findings can have larger implications in other parts of the world facing similar socio-environmental challenges.
Saleh Ahmed
Saleh Ahmed is a graduate student at the University of Arizona’s Graduate Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Arid Lands Resource Sciences with a minor in Global Change. His current and previous works focus on climate change adaptation and international development. In addition to his Ph.D. research, currently he is working as a Graduate Research Associate at the Joint University of Arizona and Columbia University’s International Research and Application Program (IRAP).
