Reflection on the Module and Vulnerability Mapping for Dhaka city, Satkhira and Cox's Bazar
The above uploaded file gives a precise overview of the climatic change hazards, impacts of this hazards to the local communities living in Dhaka city, Satkhira, Cox's Bazar areas of Bangladesh and the vulnerability matrix of this events together with the non environmental factors contributing to disruption of socio-economic activities and normal livelihood within this locations.
Justification for the Identified vulnerable events from Dhaka, Satkhira and Cox's Bazar
Testimonials videos from this three locations shows high vulnerability to climate change hazards. This hazards include include intense Monsoon rains causing flooding, severe heat waves and rising temperatures observed in Dhaka, cases of salinity Intrusion, flooding, frequent cyclones and landslides, water scarcity is also observed in Satkhira. Climate change hazards such as storm surges, cyclones, salinity intrusion,coastal erosion are also evident in Cox's Bazar. The general impact of this climate change hazards is generally evident and quite adverse from the testimonials. The cities experiences impacts such as decline in agriculture and fishing activities due to soil and water salinization, infrastructure destruction,gender inequality and poor education, displacement in areas such as Satkhira and this has resulted to unrest to the local community. It is also evident that there are some non environmental factors that affect the local communities in the above mentioned cities such as poor drainage and sanitation, lack of government intervention, population pressure observed in slums within Dhaka city and Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.
Since the coastal areas such as Cox's Bazar and Satkhira are affected with coastal erosion together with intense saline intrusion I gained an insight on the importance of Mangroves Restoration and planting as it is a crucial insight and point of focus since it is a key asset to protecting coastal heritage land instead of building sea walls. Practical have experienced the importance of this climate hazard mitigation mechanism while playing the role playing game title Stop disasters specifically cyclone prevention using mangroves.