Bangladesh is considered as one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change due to its unique geographical location, population density, low flood plain, and dependency of majority of population on nature for livelihoods. In recent years Bangladesh has made some tremendous progress to fulfill a few indicators of SDGs but there is a chance that impacts of climate change will jeopardize its progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scientific reports are indicating that 15% the floodplains of Bangladesh could go under sea water due to 1m sea level rise and 30 million coastal people could become climate migrants. Due to sea level rise, coastal Bangladesh is experiencing substantial levels of saltwater intrusion. Salinity is normally high along Bangladesh\u2019s long coast, but it is now extending further inland due to climate change-induced sea level rise, obstructions in the water cycle, land use and land cover change, coastal embankment, water logging, storm surge and shrimp cultivation. Salinity causing various health impacts in coastal Bangladesh. In fat, while people of Bangladesh are facing various health impacts related to climate change it will also hamper Bangladesh\u2019s interconnected socio-ecological balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hence Bangladesh requires systems thinking based approach which can help Bangladesh to address interconnected ecological, social, economic, and human health issues in a holistic manner for ensuing inter-and intra-generational equity. In this regard systems thinking based Planetary Health framework can a suitable approach for Bangladesh as it characterizes the linkages between natural systems and health as well as emphasis to attain \u201chighest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, equity and sustainability through judicious attention to the natural and human systems\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Byomkesh Talukder<\/strong> is the inaugural Planetary Health Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research (DIGHR), where he works at the intersection of health, sustainable development, climate change and food and agriculture systems. He is currently project co-lead in four research projects: (i) Complex Adaptive Modelling of Health Impacts of Climate Change in Malawi, and (ii) Modelling of Climate Change, Salinity, Health Impacts in Coastal Bangladesh and (iii) Digital Technologies and Local Food Security: Smallholder Farmers in Odisha, India, In the Context of COVID-19. He is also assisting in (i) Mapping Canada\u2019s Imported Food Supply Chains to Identify Climate Change-Related Health Risks, (ii) Ecological Footprint Health Indicators projects of DIGHR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n His past research applies a complexity science approach to designing sustainability assessment models of food and agricultural systems in Bangladesh. Dr. Talukder also has over 15 years of interdisciplinary field and training experience, including supervising more than 2,000 emerging leaders in sustainable development programs and policy design in Bangladesh. Since 2016, he has been a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow at Parmalat Canada and the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Dr. Talukdar holds a PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), a MES in Environmental Studies (Queen\u2019s University, Canada), a MSc in Development Science (Hiroshima University, Japan), and a MSc in Geography and Environment (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Talukder has been working diligently with various Global and National partners to address numerous health related issues correlated with planetary health. As such, the following paper presentations were presented at various programs and conferences amongst both Global and National stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[20],"research-theme":[17],"stage":[45],"relationship":[63],"class_list":["post-3192","project","type-project","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project","research-theme-planetary-health","stage-concluded","relationship-internal"],"yoast_head":"\nResearch and Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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