Building Ecosystem Resilience to Climate...

Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project

Building Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change

Md. Shams Uddin – Landscape Planning, CREL

Shahzia Mohsin Khan – Governance, CREL


Bangladesh Context to Vulnerability

Vulnerability Factors:

• Geographical location

- Himalayas in the North

- Bay of Bengal in the South

• Big river systems and deltaic floodplains

• Low elevation at coast and well inland

• Frequent natural disasters

• Dependency on natural resources affected by GCC

• High population density and wide spread poverty

• Inadequate natural and human resources, and

technologies

• Policy and Institutional weakness

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Timber Thatching materials

Honey and waxes

Supporting

Cultural Provisioning

Tourism

Regulatory

Cyclone Climate regulation

Fish

Fuel wood Crab Education

Biodiversity

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Resilience idea?

The capacity of a

system to absorb

disturbance and

reorganize while

undergoing change

so as to retain

essentially the same

function, structure,

identity, and

feedbacks

Human

Social

Ecosystem

Pond

• It’s an ability to adapt to

changes

• A systemic process & feedback

• A resistance to changes in

ecosystem feedback process

• A recovery in changing

ecosystem


Vulnerability to Resilience


4.a. Institutional response:

i) Improve Governance –

Focus on long-term benefits;

Build sustainable Co-Management system

ii) Enabling Policies - Legal frameworks

Provisioning Payments for ecosystem services & Benefit sharing

Resource access & management rights

Securing public lands for community-based conservation

Develop planning & management guidelines – multiple govt. actors

4. Approaches to build Ecosystems Resilience


iii) Build capacity for Adaptive Management

Management plans for biodiverse zones & surrounding

landscapes

Reduce population pressure from biodiversity areas

Explore institutional linkages & exchanges

Develop knowledge base & community-based monitoring

plans

4. Approaches to build Ecosystems Resilience

4.a. Institutional response:


4.b. Ecosystem Assessment and Improved Planning

Participatory Climate Vulnerability Assessments (PCVA)

Mapping and analyzing drivers of changes

Village and landscape-level plans

Dissemination of climate information

Fish and bird monitoring


4.c. Improved Biophysical condition:

Protection and restoration of mangroves;

Afforestation;

Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR);

Protection and restoration of wetland

ecosystems

Beel re-excavation and restoration of

connectivity

Reduce pressure through

guarding/caretaking;


Improved farming techniques and diversified

crop production

Promoting non-agricultural income

opportunities

4.d.Adaptive Technology


Thank you!

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