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This Selected Issues paper summarizes achievements of the authorities to date and describes several options to support their ongoing efforts. The economic impact of climate change on Bangladesh is likely to become more pronounced. The outlook for Bangladesh is a source of concern, with experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicting that a rise in sea levels and coastal erosion could lead to a loss of 17 percent of land surface and 30 percent of food production by 2050. Responding effectively to the impact of climate change depends on designing an appropriate set of fiscal policies. These can play a key role in mobilizing both public and private sources of finance for mitigation and adaptation activities. A second priority for Bangladesh is to raise domestic revenue from its current low base, including through introduction of a carbon tax. By helping establish a predictable price for carbon emissions, carbon taxes also provide clear incentives to promote investments in emissions-saving technologies. Although opponents argue that such taxes harm economic activity and slow job creation, the revenue they generate may over time be used to reduce other distorting taxes on labor and capital.

Bangladesh --- Bāṃlādeśa --- Bāṅalā Desá --- Baṅgalā-Deśa --- Bangla Desh --- Bangladesh Khalq Respublikasi --- Bangladesz --- Banguradeshu --- Gana Prajatantri Bangladesh --- Gaṇaprajātantrī Bāṃlādeśa Sarakāra --- Gônoprojatontri Bangladesh --- Ludowa Republika Bangladeszu --- Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Bangladesh --- People's Republic of Bangladesh --- バングラデシュ --- East Pakistan (Pakistan) --- Foreign economic relations. --- Climate change --- Climate --- Climatic changes --- Comparative advantage --- Environment --- Environmental Conservation and Protection --- Environmental Economics --- Environmental economics --- Environmental Economics: General --- Environmental Taxes and Subsidies --- Exports and Imports --- Exports --- Global Warming --- Greenhouse gas emissions --- Greenhouse gases --- International economics --- International trade --- Natural Disasters and Their Management --- Natural Disasters --- Natural disasters --- Neoclassical Models of Trade --- Public finance & taxation --- Redistributive Effects --- Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities --- Taxation --- Trade: General

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"Key global players increasingly politicize discussion of climatic change. This is especially evident in regard to Bangladesh, much of which is perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to flooding, and which has long been the recipient of various development schemes for "poverty reduction" or "progress" to justify interventions in its environment and society. Some of these projects have resulted in severe, often unintended, environmental effects, such as silting of waterbodies that are surrounded by embankments; biodiversity loss and weakening of the sea walls (which protect against floods) resulting from tiger-prawn monoculture; and loss of soil fertility in intensive agriculture. Camelia Dewan utilizes ethnography and environmental history to highlight flawed assumptions of international development projects in Bangladesh, which often misread the coastal landscape by attributing causality solely to climate change. Examination of multiple and often conflicting perspectives-from poor rural coastal populations, middle-class elites, political actors, and NGO staff-shows how, since the colonial era, Bangladesh has endured intrusions, and how its current environmental crisis goes beyond global warming. This case study informs broader issues worldwide by documenting how the idea of climate change shapes development projects in the Global South, and the extent to which these endeavors correspond with the problems and concerns of populations they are intended to help. This provocative study will be welcomed by readers in the fields of environmental anthropology, human geography, and development studies"--

Economic development --- Ecology. --- Coastal settlements. --- Coastal ecology. --- Climatic changes --- Coastal ecology --- Coastal settlements --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Bangladesh. --- Bangladesh --- Environmental conditions. --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Human settlements --- Coast ecology --- Coastal zone ecology --- Coasts --- Coastal biology --- Ecology --- Sublittoral ecology --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment --- East Pakistan (Pakistan) --- Bāṃlādeśa --- Bāṅalā Desá --- Baṅgalā-Deśa --- Bangla Desh --- Bangladesh Khalq Respublikasi --- Bangladesz --- Banguradeshu --- Gana Prajatantri Bangladesh --- Gaṇaprajātantrī Bāṃlādeśa Sarakāra --- Gônoprojatontri Bangladesh --- Ludowa Republika Bangladeszu --- Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Bangladesh --- People's Republic of Bangladesh --- バングラデシュ --- Global environmental change --- climate change; development; Coastal Bangladesh