Analysis Of The Water Related Adaptation Interventions For Thai Binh Province

4. Inventory Resources and Identify Groups at Risk- It is crucial to take an inventory of natural, biological, and human resources. For obvious reasons water is the most valuable natural resource in this situation; its location, accessibility, and quality. The biological resources refer to the quality and quantity of grasslands or rangelands, forests, wildlife, and so forth. Human resources are the labor needed to develop water resources and haul water, process citizen complaints, provide technical assistance, and direct citizens to available services. It is important to define the exposure of various parts of the region to drought hazard to determine which groups are at risk (Wilhite, Hayes, & Knutson, 2005).

As a result of such changes many of these developing countries are exposed to extreme and unpredictable natural disasters such as drought, floods and cyclones. Many of these developing countries are the poorest in the world and have had minor contributions to climate change, however these people are the most vulnerable to these effects and are not capable in making the required adaptations to the changing conditions. At a recent Caritas meeting in Fiji, Father Michael McKenzie said form Kiribati that “For us climate change is a life issue ¬¬¬¬– people are trying to cope with it day by day. For the rest of the world it is an economic

Droughts are a natural occurrence that has been around for millions of years. Droughts are unpredictable; no one can tell when they are going to take place, the severity, or how long they will last. Impacts on of a drought can send shockwaves thought the region. The economy, agriculture, the environment, and the residents of the region are all affected. (Vicente-Serrano, Beguería, & López-Moreno, 2009, p.1696)

Flooding is a natural cause that happens when too much rain water overflows rivers and marshes, but floods become a problem when they affect people who live around the area. This is what causes it to be a natural disaster. In this paper, I am going to talk first about the flooding in Somerset, UK. Second, I am going to talk about the flooding of the Mississippi in 1993. Finally, I will conclude with how both of these floods could have been prevented and how they could help prevent a flood in the future, along with my own opinion of what I have learned.

The (M2 Presswire, 2015) reported that the Mozambique flood disaster of 2015 washed away over 12,000 houses and the death toll was 158 of which 134 from Zambezia and the remaining from Cabo Belgado, Niassa and Nampula. Initial assessment made by Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) estimated around 10,000 families (45,000 individuals) were displaced with the need of emergency life-saving shelter materials and related goods. The means and resources planned in the Contingency plan for rainy season exceeded the capacity of Mozambican government by large. The country suffered an immense humanitarian and economic damage (European Commission, 2015) .

Adaptations to human induced warming, causing changes to net precipitation. A change in regions precipitations will highly affect the success of agricultural businesses. There is evidence that farmers in some regions are already adapting to climate related changes. Climate related changes to fisheries may include management and policy actions that maximize resilience to over-exploited areas and multi-sector adaptive measures to best reduce the consequences of a warming climate. Proper adaptations cannot solve the world’s problems, but they can decrease the adverse effects of human induced global

Two of the greatest natural disasters, causing death and destruction, are floods and typhoons. The contents of this paper will contain an analysis and report on the issue of flooding in the Asian Megacities of Bangkok and Manila. These cities will be compared to one another and to the American megacity New York City. The analysis of New York City will contain the cities vulnerability that occurs due to wind, rain, and flooding, along with efforts in preventing flooding at the time of a storm coming from the Pacific Ocean.

In order to explore the impacts of water-related climate change adaptation interventions on the local communities, the research should clarify the main concepts and theoretical frames for the key concepts and related literature review on these concepts.

“Bangladesh is the nature's laboratory on natural disaster.” says Ainun Nishat, from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Devastated by floods, a low lying south Asian country with a high poverty rate and severe food insecurity, suffers the consequences of on-going destructive natural disasters. Their habitual food insecurity is one of the most concerning outcomes that significantly impacts people’s wellbeing. One of the local citizen uttered, “The flood has washed away all our happiness, my son had three acres of rice and crops and all is now underwater. What will we eat now? My family will starve. “ Bangladesh’s food security is extremely vulnerable and tremendously deteriorated under three major threats, continual climate changes, water scarcity, and poverty .

Successful adaptation that success in dealing with the following 7 criteria. Effectiveness; effective adaptation intervention that achieve its stated objectives, reduce vulnerability, increase adaptive capacity and enhance level of protection. Flexibility; evaluate how adaptation deal with climate change uncertainty about the future? and flexibility in act with range of climate changes projected under different emissions scenarios because response to ‘worst case scenario’ will be safer but extremely expensive and reduces resources available for pressing development needs so successful adaptation improve current climate resilience and depend on ‘no regret’ and ‘win-win’ interventions that allowing better decisions downstream. Equity: evaluate dimensions of inequality in adaptation because inequitable adaptation interventions will undermine the potential for welfare gains in the future so adaptation should respect equity by considering equalities between sectors, regions and societies [2]. Efficiency: Efficiency or cost-effectiveness is typically used to compare the costs of alternative ways of producing the same or similar results to assess the least-cost path to reaching a given target and address agreed acceptable levels of risk.

The following is a brief plan than can be used to asses the damages of the flood within the community especially on property. The focus of the plan is to look at the response that was put forth by the city council, the salvaged property and the partly destroyed as well as the completely destroyed property by the floods.

For a developing nation, the progression of its economy is crucial and the focus on the economies of Southeast Asia have taken the region as a whole quite far in a very impressive time period; however, the region must adapt to the problematic climate change issues of the world as it is still in its developing stage given that if the natural resources of the region are used up, there will not be very many sources to allow the region to sustain its economy upon.

The aim of this research is to develop a set of indicators for monitoring and evaluation of water-related climate change adaptation interventions at the local community level in Thai Binh province. This will help authorities at high levels, NGO officers, local residents and other beneficiaries as they can evaluate the “effectiveness” of water-related interventions. The robust indicators will help to adjust the adaptation targets for given times, to ensure the accountability to stakeholders, to provide evidence for the effects of intervention, to motivate all partners, to fundraise, and to reveal the shortcomings in the implementation of water-related adaptation interventions {Hobson, 2014 #328}.

adaptations to climate change, in 2010, the World Bank estimated the costs of adaptation to climate change by 2050. These costs will reach $6.59billion by 2030. Additionally, it was estimated that Bangladesh will have to invest $40 billion from 2015 to 2030 “in order to implement identified adaptation measures” (INDC, 2015).

Abstract: The study has been conducted based on broad objective of exploring indigenous coping mechanisms for combating disaster at Koyra upazila of Khulna and Patharghata upazila of Barguna district in Bangladesh. For attaining broad objective the study focuses some important objectives that include revealing indigenous perception about disaster, exploring indigenous coping mechanisms, revealing Governmental and NGOs mechanisms and drawing some suggestions for improving the coping system with disaster. Qualitative research method has been employed in this study. Through purposive sampling 10 respondents have been selected for the study. The findings of the study show that most of the respondents are not well educated and living in house with less security. Almost every year disaster like flood, river bank erosion, cyclone and tidal surge hit in study areas. Community people adopt different indigenous mechanisms for combating disastrous impact. The study indicates that people adopt these mechanisms before and after disaster. They take structural ( repairing embankment, raising homestead platform, construction of road etcetera) and nonstructural (making people aware, tying houses with strong trees, planting disaster resilient trees, taking shelter in cyclone center during disaster, preserving food for future and dissemination of news about imminent disaster etcetera). The promising findings of the study show