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Monirul Islam Monirul Islam

Postgraduate Student

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 35572
Email address: eemmi@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.124

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University of Dhaka

Biography

Prior to starting the PhD, Monirul had been working as a teaching faculty at the Department of Fisheries, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He also completed his bachelor and master degree from there. After completing PhD he will back to his job and start teaching and research. In addition to teaching, his career goal is to work as an advocate for the climate victims.

Project details

Project title

Vulnerability and Adaptation of Fisheries-Based Livelihoods of Bangladesh to Climate Variability and Change

Supervisors

Professor Jouni Paavola, Professor Klaus Hubacek and Dr Susannah Sallu

Funding

Commonwealth Scholarship

Start date

1st October 2009

Project outline

Climate change is an additional pressure on top of the many (such as over fishing, loss of habitat, pollution and disturbance) which fisheries already experience (Brander, 2006). Globally, the fisheries sector supports the livelihoods of about 520 million people (FAO, 2009). Climate variability and change along with its impact can create adverse effects on their livelihoods by affecting their livelihood assets, strategies and outcomes (Coulthard, 2008; Iwasaki et al., 2009; Sarch and Allison, 2000). Broadly, this study will fill the knowledge gaps for poverty reduction strategies and sustainable development of the people - especially who are involved with fisheries sector - by examining their challenges, abilities and strategies during adverse climate condition. This study will provide a synthesis of information on the relationship among climate change, livelihood vulnerability and adaptation which will help developing strategies explicitly for the coastal fisheries dependent people. The strategies may include reducing livelihood vulnerability mainly due to negative climate impacts and strengthening the livelihood security especially for the extremely low income fisheries dependent people, who are more in number and less able to avoid and cope with the negative impacts of climate stimuli.