Perfect Storm? Population Pressures, Natural Resource Constraints, and Climate Change in Bangladesh

Few nations are more at risk from climate change’s destructive effects than Bangladesh, a low-lying, lower-riparian, populous, impoverished, and natural disaster-prone nation. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that by 2050, sea levels in Bangladesh will have risen by two to three feet, obliterating a fifth of the country’s landmass and displacing at … Continue reading Perfect Storm? Population Pressures, Natural Resource Constraints, and Climate Change in Bangladesh