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ICCCAD Developing Courses: “Urban Adaptation to Climate Change”.

Independent University, Bangladesh held a short course organized by The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) from 12th -18th July, 2012 on “Urban Adaptation to Climate Change”.

ICCCAD is a partnership with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS). They held their tenth course programme on urban infrastructure and climate change challenges and how it will affect developing and developed countries. Along with Bangladeshi individuals there were also international participants that attended from Bhutan, India, Kenya, Indonesia, Philippine, Thailand, Nepal and Zimbabwe.

In its first session the introductory speech was given by Dr. Saleemul Huq, the director of ICCCAD and for the remaining part of the course the facilitators were David Dodman, a senior researcher in Human Settlements and Climate Change Group and team leader of the program “Cities and Climate Change”, and David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow in the Human Settlements and Climate Change Group and team leader of the programme Urban Poverty and Local Organization at IIED.

Dr. Atiq Rahman, Executive Director of BCAS, also attended the course on one occasion and in his visit he expressed his views on a few concerns on urbanization. He said that the biggest dilemma of urbanization is the rate at which there is internal displacement of people, leading people to move to urban areas from rural areas,  mostly due to work opportunities that may be available and the push and pull factor causing migration to be rapid. In Dhaka City one third of the population lives in the slums, as displaced people from river bank eroded villages moved and relocated to the city. He also mentioned that the Inter Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has identified a new challenge to bring sustainability into agriculture in urban areas which is called peri-urban agriculture. Therefore, climate change, urbanization, population displacement and development are all part of one common package, and focus on urbanization and climate change can be a part of this large spectrum. He ended his speech by wishing the participants to build a city which is more habitable in the future.

 At the end of the course certificates were awarded to the participants on completing the course. 

 

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