Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in Bangladesh by Md Ra... - 9781032554273

Climate Change, Migration and Conflict in BangladeshAuthor(s): Md Rafiqul Islam\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032554273, 978-1032554273\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the relationship between climate changeinduced migration and conflict in Bangladesh one of the most ecologically fragile countries in the world. It explores why people migrate from their original place of land and how the migration of people with a different background to an ethnically distinctive region due to environmental changes can become a source of conflict and violence between the host peoples and migrants. The volume focuses on the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), which has experienced long-standing ethnopolitical conflict due to the settlement and migration of the Bengali people from the plain land of Bangladesh. This settlement and migration were mainly caused climatic events such as floods, cyclones, sealevel rise, and disasters. .