04365nam a2200469 i 4500 41802 BD-DhAAL 20231002105905.0 230926t2023 bg ab b 001 0 eng d 2021012111 9789845064101 9780295749600 9780295749617 9780295749624 DLC eng rda DLC DLC BD-DhAAL pcc a-bg--- QC903.2.B3 D48 2021 338.95492 23 Dewan, Camelia, author. 55590 Misreading the Bengal Delta : climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh / Camelia Dewan ; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan. Dhaka : University Press Limited, 2023. xxiii, 224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-210) and index. Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : climate reductive translations In development -- Simplifying embankments -- Translating climate change -- Assembling fish, shrimp, and suffering in a saltwater village -- Entangling rice, soil, and strength in a freshwater village -- Surviving inequality -- Conclusion : misreading climate change. "Key global players increasingly politicize discussion of climatic change. This is especially evident in regard to Bangladesh, much of which is perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to flooding, and which has long been the recipient of various development schemes for "poverty reduction" or "progress" to justify interventions in its environment and society. Some of these projects have resulted in severe, often unintended, environmental effects, such as silting of waterbodies that are surrounded by embankments; biodiversity loss and weakening of the sea walls (which protect against floods) resulting from tiger-prawn monoculture; and loss of soil fertility in intensive agriculture. Camelia Dewan utilizes ethnography and environmental history to highlight flawed assumptions of international development projects in Bangladesh, which often misread the coastal landscape by attributing causality solely to climate change. Examination of multiple and often conflicting perspectives-from poor rural coastal populations, middle-class elites, political actors, and NGO staff-shows how, since the colonial era, Bangladesh has endured intrusions, and how its current environmental crisis goes beyond global warming. This case study informs broader issues worldwide by documenting how the idea of climate change shapes development projects in the Global South, and the extent to which these endeavors correspond with the problems and concerns of populations they are intended to help. This provocative study will be welcomed by readers in the fields of environmental anthropology, human geography, and development studies"-- ENH BIGD Karim International University press limited 41802, 41803, 41292, 41293 Climatic changes Social aspects Bangladesh. 55591 Climatic changes Economic aspects Bangladesh. 55592 Economic development Environmental aspects Bangladesh. Coastal settlements Bangladesh. 55593 Coastal ecology Bengladesh. 55594 Bangladesh Environmental conditions. 568 Sivaramakrishnan, K. 27239 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 46170 46170 0 0 ddc 0 338_954920000000000_DEW 0 74454 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2023-09-25 Karim International 790.00 1 13 338.95492 DEW 3010041802 2024-09-25 2024-05-28 1 790.00 2023-09-25 BK 0 0 ddc 0 338_954920000000000_DEW 0 74455 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2023-09-25 Karim International 790.00 3 14 338.95492 DEW 3010041803 2024-10-02 2024-09-29 2 790.00 2023-09-25 BK 0 0 ddc 0 338_954920000000000_DEW 0 74489 BIGD BIGD GEN 2023-10-01 University press limitted 800.00 0 338.95492 DEW 3050041832 2023-10-01 3 1000.00 2023-10-01 BK 0 0 ddc 0 338_954920000000000_DEW 0 74490 BIGD BIGD GEN 2023-10-01 University press limitted 800.00 0 338.95492 DEW 3050041833 2023-10-01 4 1000.00 2023-10-01 BK