How Vulnerable are Bangladeshs Indigenous People to Climate Change?
” Speaker: Dr. Bernhard Gunter, President, Bangladesh Development Research Center (BDRC) Time: Tuesday, March 4, 12:30 to 2 pm Place: Room MC 8-100, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington D.C. 20433 Abstract Dr. Gunter will present a paper that compares the vulnerabilities to climate change and climate variability of the indigenous people with the Bengali population of Bangladesh. The paper was jointly authored by Bernhard Gunter, Atiq Rahman and A. F. M. Ataur Rahman and presented at the Conference on “Indigenous People and Bangladesh Environment” in Dhaka in December 2007. The paper distinguishes between (a) individual vulnerabilities that are related to an individual’s capability to adapt to climate change and; (b) spatial vulnerabilities, that is, vulnerabilities that are related to the location of a person (like the exposure to climate change-induced disasters). While an individual’s capability to adapt to climate change is determined by many factors, some relatively simpl
