ABSTRACT
28Bangladesh is under serious threat due to climate change. 1 Annual cycles of flooding, and devastating extreme weather events, are common there. The long coastline – more than 700 kilometres and home to more than 30 million people – is exposed to increasingly violent cyclones, rising sea levels, tidal flooding and salinity intrusion. Widespread poverty, the low-lying and flat topography of one of the largest riverine deltas in the world and a high population density are some of the key factors behind the country’s chronic social and environmental vulnerability.
