Jenkins, J. Craig

Shum, C. K.

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Climate Change Challenges and Community Adaption in Coastal Bangladeshhttps://mershoncenter.osu.edu/index.php/research/2014-2015/climate-change-challenges-and-community-adaption-in-coastal-bangladesh[7/25/2019 2:26:52 PM]Help BuckeyeLink Map Find People Webmail  You are here:   Home  Research  2014-2015  Climate Change Challenges and Community Adaption in Coastal BangladeshCLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES AND COMMUNITY ADAPTION IN COASTALBANGLADESHPrincipal Investigators: J. Craig Jenkins, Department of Sociology, and C.K.Shum, School of Earth SciencesWhat do you get when you combine the efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation,U.S. Agency for International Development, and Swedish InternationalDevelopment Cooperation Agency?You get the Global Resilience Partnership, a campaign to foster alliances anddrive innovation by creating opportunities for scale, impact, and sustainability inthe Sahel, Horn of Africa, and South and Southeast Asia – areas where newideas and approaches can help countries and communities prepare for, adaptto, and recover in the face of chronic shocks and stresses.Earlier this year, the partnership selected “Climate Change Challenges andCommunity Adaption in Coastal Bangladesh,” organized by J. Craig Jenkins,past director of the Mershon Center, and C.K. Shum, professor in the School ofEarth Sciences, as one of 17 projects in its Global Resilience Challenge. Theproject was chosen out of a field of more than 500 applicants.Since being chosen, project teams have been exploring the effects of persistentcycles of drought, storms, famine, and other disasters on vulnerablepopulations, and identifying locally driven, scalable solutions that can helpcommunities adapt and recover while reducing vulnerabilities.Jenkins and Shum are studying the effects of flooding in coastal Bangladesh, home to 60 million people, a third of whom live inpoverty. The area is highly vulnerable to monsoonal flooding, salt water intrusion, drought, severe river erosion, sea level rise,and land subsidence. Each year more than 10 percent of crops are lost and more than 30,000 people are displaced.The project team is working with the Belmont Forum’s Band-AID project to measure flooding and land subsidence using MODISsatellite data. They found that flooding and erosion in the Megnha River region has led to a 6 percent change in population over adecade. Six parishads have disappeared entirely due to river erosion, and land is sinking at the rate of an inch per year.“The Meghna River complex carries one of the world’s largest river flows driven by the Himilayan melt plus intense monsoons,”Jenkins said. Climate change intensifies the effect: “Rainfall extremes are increasing along with temperature extremes, whichmean more glacial melt and monsoon rainfall, often coming from across the 1500-mile-wide drainage area.”The team has also traveled to Bangladesh several times for fieldwork, including observations, focus groups and interviews withleaders and residents in several villages to better understand the environmental challenges they face and how they are adapting.Ultimately Jenkins and Shum hope to establish a local Water Resources Center with three facilities: a school to provide training incommunity development for partnering NGOs and government agencies; a research facility to provide training in evaluationsurveys and methods; and a data center to provide a range of information on water quality and quantity.   2016-20172015-20162014-20152013-20142012-20132011-20122010-20112009-20102008-20092007-20082006-2007ABOUT US RESEARCH NEWS EVENTS GRANTS PEOPLE PUBLICATIONS CONTACTClimate Change Challenges and Community Adaption in Coastal Bangladeshhttps://mershoncenter.osu.edu/index.php/research/2014-2015/climate-change-challenges-and-community-adaption-in-coastal-bangladesh[7/25/2019 2:26:52 PM]MERSHON CENTER About UsResearchNewsEventsGrantsPeoplePublicationsContactARTS AND SCIENCES College of Arts and SciencesAcademicsAbout the CollegeNews and EventsResearchArts and CultureAlumniINTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Office of International AffairsCenter for African StudiesCenter for Latin American StudiesCenter for Slavic & East EuropeanStudiesEast Asian Studies CenterInstitute for Chinese StudiesInstitute for Japanese StudiesInstitute for Korean StudiesMiddle East Studies CenterRESOURCES Events CalendarE-NewslettersAnnual ReportsFact SheetExperts ListFaculty BooksFurniss AwardKnowledge Bank © 2013 Mershon Center for International Security Studies – College of Arts and Sciences1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201Phone: 614-292-1681 | Fax: 614-292-2407Request an alternate format of this page.   

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