Impacts of climatic disasters in the coastal area of Bangladesh : 'climate service' a way forward

This chapter considers ‘climate service’ as a tool to mitigate likely impacts of climatic disasters of the coastal regions in the southwest Bangladesh. Climate service enables to undertake the required development and capacity building for the coastal communities, who have the high potentiality of severe consequences of ecological disasters such as cyclones, flooding, sea levels rising and heat waves. The mitigation of adverse impacts of climatic disasters requires both comprehensive and appropriate plans and policies at national and regional level. In this chapter,we utilise life story interviews in the coastal area of Dacope sub-distrct under the division of Khulna, Bangladesh. The study analyses national and local development policies and plans to mitigate the impacts of climatic disasters in Bangladesh. Our study primarily explores the shortcomings of the national and local policies and plans to consider and apply climate service for mitigating the possible impacts of climate disasters. Our findings suggest that the current national and local development policies and plans insufficiently integrate climate service in undertaking the necessary developments and capacity building for risk reduction of climate disaster. Such inadequacies have significant impacts on the mitigation of the impacts of climate disaster. The outcome of the research will be instrumental for understanding and encouraging the stakeholders to integrate climate service in the national and local development policies and plans

Sustainable aquaculture through the One Health lens

Aquaculture is predicted to supply the majority of aquatic dietary protein by 2050. For aquaculture to deliver significantly enhanced volumes of food in a sustainable manner, appropriate account needs to be taken of its impacts on environmental integrity, farmed organism health and welfare, and human health. Here, we explore increased aquaculture production through the One Health lens and define a set of success metrics — underpinned by evidence, policy and legislation — that must be embedded into aquaculture sustainability. We provide a framework for defining, monitoring and averting potential negative impacts of enhanced production — and consider interactions with land-based food systems. These metrics will inform national and international science and policy strategies to support improved aquatic food system design