Climate Change in Bangladesh: Confronting Impending Disasters is a comprehensive analysis of climate change impacts on Bangladesh, followed by a review of measures for confronting the manifested threats of climate change on the people and environment of Bangladesh. Using an integrative approach, the authors blend their own work on indigenous adjustments to climatic hazards in Bangladesh with an analysis of the role of modern engineering intervention and disaster management policies in alleviating these hazards. There is also an emphasis on the environment and people of coastal Bangladesh who are at risk of inundation due to global warminginduced sea level rise. Thus, in addition to analyzing main climatic disasters at some lengthtropical cyclones (hurricanes), floods, droughts, and sea level risekey topics of human dimensions of climate change include climate change victims, climate refugees, climate justice, public policies on climate change, and a sample of adaptation measures for living with the rising sea levels.

Harun Rashid is emeritus professor at the department of geography and earth science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.Bimal Kanti Paulis a professor of geography at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.

PrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Impacts on Air Temperature, Precipitation, and Sea level riseChapter 3: Impacts on Tropical Cyclones and Coping StrategiesChapter 4: Impacts on Floods and Coping StrategiesChapter 5: Impacts on Droughts and Coping StrategiesChapter 6: Climate Change Victims and Climate JusticeChapter 7: Climate RefugeesChapter 8: Confronting Climate Change through Disaster Management InitiativesChapter 9: Confronting Sea Level Rise through AdaptationChapter 10: Summary and Conclusion