ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on climate change, vulnerability, coping, resilience and the types of adaptations adopted to improve and enhance quality of life and gender equality in Bangladesh. It also examines a research on climate change in Bangladesh with a particular focus on the impacts on women. Of particular concern to the writer is that the impacts on women and girls be addressed and that climate change and post disaster scenarios not be used as sites where gender inequalities become entrenched. It is that must view the challenges posed by climate change to the people of Bangladesh and subsequently the impacts for women and girls. In instituting feminist values into climate change actions and practices and addressing gender inequalities in fragile states, the need for a global women's movement becomes evident. A global movement has the potential to expose the taken for granted gender relations in local customs and in aid distribution, resource allocation, decision making and prioritizing of actions.