Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project Building Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change Md. Shams Uddin – Landscape Planning, CREL Shahzia Mohsin Khan – Governance, CREL
Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project
Building Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change
Md. Shams Uddin – Landscape Planning, CREL
Shahzia Mohsin Khan – Governance, CREL
Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project
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
Fruits
Medicine
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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
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Vulnerability to Resilience
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Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project
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
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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:
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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
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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;
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Improved farming techniques and diversified
crop production
Promoting non-agricultural income
opportunities
4.d.Adaptive Technology
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Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project
Thank you!