Climate change risks and food security in Bangladesh / / Winston H. Yu ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957649503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Washington, DC, : Earthscan, c2010
• ISBN: 9786612789748; 9781136532498; 1136532498; 9781136532504; 1136532501; 9781282789746; 1282789740; 9781849776387; 1849776385
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Collana: Earthscan climate
• Altri autori (Persone): YuWinston H
• Disciplina: 363.8/2095492
• Soggetti: Crops and climate - Bangladesh; Climatic changes - Bangladesh; Food security - Environmental aspects - Bangladesh; Agricultural productivity - Environmental aspects - Bangladesh; Agriculture - Economic aspects - Bangladesh
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Isabel M. Guerrero; Executive Summary; Glossary of Terms; Acronyms; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Objectives of Study; 1.2 Literature Review; 1.3 Integrated Modelling Methodology; 1.4 Organization of Study; 2. Vulnerability to Climate Risks; 2.1 The Success of Agriculture; 2.2 Living with Annual Floods; 2.3 Lean Season Water Availability; 2.4 Sea level Rise in Coastal Areas; 2.5 Regional Hydrology Issues; 3. Future Climate Scenarios; 3.1 Future Estimated Precipitation and Temperature3.2 Future Sea level ; Rise; 4. Future Flood Hydrology; 4.1 GBM Basin Model Development; 4.2 National Hydrologic Super Model; 4.3 Approach to Modelling Future Flood Changes; 4.4 Future Changes over the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin; 4.5 Future Flood Characteristics and Analysis; 5. Future Crop Performance; 5.1 Development of the Baseline Period; 5.2 Developing Flood Damage Functions; 5.3 Incorporating Coastal Inundation Effects; 5.4 Projections of Future Potential Unflooded Production (Climate Only); 5.5 Projections of Future Projected Flood Damages5.6 Projections of Potential Coastal Inundation Damages; 5.7 Projections of Integrated Damages; 5.8 Using the Crop Model to Simulate Adaptation Options; 6. Economy-wide Impacts of Climate Risks; 6.1 Integrating Climate Effects in an Economy-wide Model; 6.2 Economic Impacts of Existing Climate Variability; 6.3 Additional Economic Impacts of Climate Change; 7. Adaptation Options in the Agriculture Sector; 7.1 Identifying and Evaluating Adaptation Options; 8. The Way Forward - Turning Ideas to Action; 8.1 A Framework for Assessing the Economic of Climate ChangeAnnex 1 - Using DSSAT to Model Adaptation Impacts; Annex 2 - Description of the CGE Model; Annex 3 - Constructing the Social Accounting Matrix for Bangladesh; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive integrated framework.2. Vulnerability to Climate Risks3. Future Climate Scenarios4. Future Flood Hydrology5. Future Crop Performance6. Economy-Wide Impacts of Climate Risks7. Adaptation Options in the Agriculture SectorAnnexes:Annex 1 - Using DSSAT to Model Adaptation ImpactsAnnex 2 - A Simple Economy-Wide CGE ModelAnnex 3 - Constructing the Social Accounting Matrix for BangladeshFirst, the most recent science available is used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical data is used to derive more realistic and accurate agricultural impact functions and simulations. A range of climate risks (i.e. warmer temperatures, higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changing characteristics of floods, droughts and potential sea level rise) is considered to gain a more complete picture of potential agriculture impacts. Third, while estimating changes in production is important, economic responses may to some degree buffer against the physical losses predicted, and an assessment is made of these. Food security is dependent not only on production, but also future food requirements, income levels and commodity prices. Finally, adaptation possibilities are identified for the sector. This book is the first to combine these multiple disciplines and analytical procedures to comprehensively address these impacts. The framework will serve as a useful guide to design policy intervention strategies and investments in adaptation measures.Index.

Migrants, minorities, and health : historical and contemporary studies / / edited by Lara Marks and Michael Worboys

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953846703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
• ISBN: 1-134-83205-2; 1-280-33625-0; 9786610336258; 0-203-20817-X; 0-203-29683-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Collana: Studies in the social history of medicine
• Altri autori (Persone): MarksLara <1963->; WorboysMichael <1948->
• Disciplina: 306.4/61/08693
• Soggetti: Immigrants - Health and hygiene - Australia - History; Minorities - Health and hygiene - Australia - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; INTRODUCTION; 'DISEASE, DEFILEMENT, DEPRAVITY': TOWARDS AN AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF HEALTH The case of the Chinese in nineteenth-century Australia; MIGRATION, PROSTITUTION AND MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY MALAYA; RACIALISM AND INFANT DEATH Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socio-medical discourses on African American infant mortality; A DISEASE OF CIVILISATION Tuberculosis in Britain, Africa and India, 1900 39; GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE HEALTH STATUS OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, 1945 72FROM VISIBLE TO INVISIBLE The 'problem' of the health of Irish people in Britain; ETHNIC ADVANTAGE Infant survival among Jewish and Bengali immigrants in East London, 1870 1990; GREEK MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA Surviving well and helping their hosts; SOUTHERN ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY AND THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF MEDICALISED PREJUDICE; THE POWER OF THE EXPERTS The plurality of beliefs and practices concerning health and illness among Bangladeshis in contemporary Tower Hamlets, LondonWHO'S DEFINITION? Australian Aborigines, conceptualisations of health and the World Health Organisation; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking at a number of migrant and minority groups from around the world, this book examines how health issues and the construction of medical ideas have interacted with developing ideas of ethnicity and race.