ABSTRACT
Owing to a number of natural and man-made factors, Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to water-related extreme events (Ahmad et al., 1994; Ahmad et al., 2000). In the wake of global warming and its associated changes in biophysical environmental conditions, it is feared that the country would most likely to be severely affected. The anticipated changes in the hydrological regime would accentuate high intensity climatic events. Unfortunately, livelihoods of majority of the people depend directly on prevailing precarious state of environmental conditions, which is likely to be perturbed significantly due to anticipated impacts of climate change. Despite high incidence of poverty, high population density and unemployment, the country has made significant stride to sustainable development in the recent decades. Adverse impacts of climate change would be detrimental, especially when the hydrological extreme events are likely to be exacerbated under the climate change regime.
