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List of Figures and Tables | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Foreword | p. xiii |
Executive Summary | p. xv |
Glossary of Terms | p. xxi |
Acronyms | p. xxiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Objective of Study | p. 2 |
Literature Review | p. 2 |
Integrated Modelling Methodology | p. 3 |
Organization of Study | p. 4 |
Vulnerability to Climate Risks | p. 5 |
The Success of Agriculture | p. 6 |
Living with Annual Floods | p. 10 |
Lean Season Water Availability | p. 15 |
Sea level Rise in Coastal Areas | p. 17 |
Regional Hydrology Issues | p. 19 |
Future Climate Scenarios | p. 21 |
Future Estimated Precipitation and Temperature | p. 22 |
Future Sea level Rise | p. 26 |
Future Flood Hydrology | p. 28 |
GBM Basin Model Development | p. 28 |
National Hydrologic Super Model | p. 30 |
Approach to Modelling Future Flood Changes | p. 30 |
Future Changes over the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin | p. 31 |
Future Flood Characteristics and Analysis | p. 33 |
Future Crop Performance | p. 41 |
Development of the Baseline Period | p. 42 |
Developing Flood Damage Functions | p. 46 |
Incorporating Coastal Inundation Effects | p. 48 |
Projections of Future Potential Unflooded Production (Climate Only) | p. 49 |
Projections of Future Projected Flood Damages | p. 52 |
Projections of Potential Coastal Inundation Damages | p. 53 |
Projections of Integrated Damages | p. 53 |
Using the Crop Model to Simulate Adaptation Options | p. 56 |
Economy-Wide Impacts of Climate Risks | p. 60 |
Integrating Climate Effects in an Economy-wide Model | p. 61 |
Economic Impacts of Existing Climate Variability | p. 64 |
Additional Economic Impacts of Climate Change | p. 72 |
Adaptation Options in the Agriculture Sector | p. 82 |
Identifying and Evaluating Adaptation Options | p. 83 |
The Way Forward - Turning Ideas to Action | p. 105 |
A Framework for Assessing the Economics of Climate Change | p. 107 |
Using DSSAT to Model Adaptation Impacts | p. 108 |
Description of the CGE Model | p. 113 |
Constructing the Social Accounting Matrix for Bangladesh | p. 119 |
References | p. 133 |
Index | p. 139 |
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