Exploring Losses & Damages from Climatic Co-located Hazards in Coastal Bangladesh

Climate change is a burning problem around the world where coastal communities are the frontliners on facing negative impact due to climate change. Because of the geographical location, the coastal areas of Bangladesh face several co-located hazards (cyclone, flood, tidal surges, draught and so on) regularly. Several adaptative action are practiced by coastal households against those hazards and sometimes remain unsuccessful in mitigation. In that particular circumstance, loss and damages (L&D) occurs. From that perspective, the aim of this research is to explore the current situation of L&D (Both economic and non-economic L&D) from experienced co-located hazards (cyclone, flood and draught) in last 5 years. This research also explores the impacts of different adaptive strategies and adaptive capacity to mitigate those economic and non-economic L&D. To fulfill the aim, Burigoalini and Munshiganj union from Sathkhira district are considered as the study area. The proposed research has followed a quantitative methodology which involves household questionnaire survey and statistical data analysis. Based on the population size (total household number), this research has collected 120 sample and sample size is determined using Taro Yamane elementary sampling technique. In this research different types of quantitative analysis have been conducted to find the relationship and difference between several dynamics of L&D. Different statistical tests (parametric and non-parametric) have been used to analyze the data like, descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), indexing (Non-economic L&D Index), multiple linear regression (MLR), and ordinal logistic regression (OLR). The result shows, almost one third (65.00%) households are affected by two hazards (mostly cyclone and flood). Overall, 25% household are affected by three hazards and other 10% households are affected by one hazard. The households which are affected by two hazards are mainly the most severe victim of economic and non-economic L&D. The result highlights that, several indicators of adaptation have negative impact on both economic and non-economic L&D and some of the indicators have positive impact that means those adaptations are more practiced by households with severe L&D.

Keywords: Co-located hazards, Losses and Damages, Economic L&D, Non-economic L&D, Adaptation, Multiple hazards, Climatic hazards.

• Supervision