Disaster events are common phenomenon in Bangladesh. People in Bangladesh frequently suffer from it. The Sundarbans coastal region is on the frontline of global climate change due to its geographic location. People here fight with the effects of natural calamities regularly to save their lives. Natural hazards such as salinity intrusion, rising sea levels, river erosion, water logging, high tide, cyclones, and storm surge have been gradually increasing because of climate change. To cope, people in the Sundarbans coastal region created different techniques and applied those in their daily lives. Government and NGOs have begun introducing Disaster Risk Reduction techniques among the poor, climate-vulnerable people living in the Sundarbans coastal communities.

By: Md. Maksudur Rahman, Gouranga Nandy, Saumito Chakrabarti