Mohammed Abdul Baten

University of Maine | UM · Department of Anthropology

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has been expanding both horizontally and vertically since last three decades with an estimated annual growth of six percent. Over the past several decades, concerns have been raised regarding the amount of water used in Dhaka as with higher rates of personal water use, which mostly collected from ground water resul...

In Bangladesh, South Western (SW) coastal area is the most vulnerable due to its geo-morphological characteristics and socio-economic conditions. Consequently, this study aims at find out the sustainable adaptation practices to climate change impacts through a series of field study along with questionnaire survey and reviewing the secondary literat...

Climate scientists, environmentalists, climate negotiators and policy makers around the world have recognized that Bangladesh is the worst victim of climate change. In Bangladesh, South Western coastal area is the most vulnerable due to its geo-morphological characteristics. Among the different sectors, water is seriously affected by climate change...

To adapt to the emergent global climate impacts, the local communities of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts in South-Western Bangladesh have spontaneously promoted a number of social innovation using their innovative ideas and traditional knowledge. The present study highlights on this practice called as Community Mangrove Aqua-Silvi-Culture...

The political definition of ‘natural geography’ with regard to trans-boundary waters may pose challenges to their environmental importance. Availability and distribution of trans-boundary waters may thus give rise to dissatisfaction, disbelief and dispute among its stakeholders. The Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) basins, shared between Bangla...

This paper investigates the impacts of salinity on crop agriculture in south-central coastal zone of Bangladesh, more particularly interior coast. The coastal areas of Bangladesh, with near flat topography and location at the tip of “funnel shaped” Bay of Bengal, are susceptible to a number of natural hazards such as cyclones, tidal surges, salinit...

Bangladesh, being a developing country, has made substantial progress in providing food to its large population base over the years, yet the country has been facing challenges from lessening gaps between the food intake for a person in a day and the minimum requirement for balanced nutrition from diet food. Empirical studies have shown that dietary...

Being one of the disaster prone countries of the world, Bangladesh experiences natural calamities like cyclones, tornadoes, tidal surges, storm surges, riverbank erosion, floods and droughts every year with different frequencies. It is believed that the intensity of the calamities have increased many folds due to impacts from climate change in rece...

It is commonly observed that the Sundarbans has ability to recover from the damages incurred by natural calamities. However, the frequency and intensity of natural calamities has increased many folds which leave a little time to recover, hence natural recovery capacity of the Sundarbans is eroding day by day. On the other hand, the adjacent communi...

Gender refers to the social roles and relations between women and men, which include different responsibilities of women and men in a given culture and location. Even though gender has become one of the themes of analysis in development policy discourses yet it received little emphasis in climate change policies. By reviewing literature related to...

Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh are managing forests around their homesteads in a sustainable way despite exclusion of customary rights on government managed reserved forests,. Bangladesh, as one of the forest poor countries in the world, is continuously struggling to conserve its forest resources. However,...