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Bangladesh: Country Enviromental Analysis 2007
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Facts:
- Economic losses due to environmental damage account for equivalent to 2.7% of GDP.
- Economic losses associated with indoor and urban air pollution, degradation of water quality in Dhaka, and the decline of capture fisheries amounts to more than 2.7% of GDP.
- Loss of US$ 500 million annually due to poor management of water resources in Dhaka.
- 30 per cent of inland fish species are in danger of extinction. |
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| | Bangladesh’s steady economic growth has created many environmental challenges, particularly in urban and industrialized areas. The Country Environmental Analysis for Bangladesh underpins complex linkages between poverty, growth and environmental management. The report identifies three significant areas that need priority attention: (i) urban and indoor air pollution threats to human health; (ii) treatment of urban and industrial sewage in Dhaka; and (iii) the continuous decline of capture fisheries. The negative impacts of these environmental issues are costly to the poor and the economy alike: they are estimated at more than 4% of GDP in this report. | | |
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Chapter 1: Context and Objectives
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| | This chapter provides a background on the environmental situation in Bangladesh by covering areas such as environmental health risks, threats to natural resource productivity and Bangladesh’s vulnerability to climate change. It also explores the response of the Government and development partners in regard to coping with the environmental challenges to poverty reduction. | | |
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Chapter 2: Environmental Health
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| | This chapter examines risk factors and costs of environmental health. It is estimated that about one-fifth of the total burden of disease in Bangladesh may be associated with environmental factors. It also identifies indoor air pollution as a serious health hazard. This chapter also examines how water supply and sanitation produced good results for the country and explains how arsenic is threatening Bangladesh’s safe water achievement. | | | Download Chapter » |
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Chapter 3: Management of Water Quality in Dhaka
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| | Chapter 3 highlights plights of mega city Dhaka where most of the poor lack access to clean water and adequate sanitation facilities, and many live in squalid conditions next to extremely polluted water bodies. The triple threat of contamination of the air, land and water has put the capital under stress. It also examines the economic and social costs of water degradation and highlights policy and institutional factors affecting water quality in the Dhaka area. | | |
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Chapter 4: Management of Capture Fisheries
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| | This chapter highlights how the inland capture fisheries, a valuable resource for the poor, have come under threat due to encroachment and degradation of natural assets and rapid urbanization. It also underscores the need for management controls in the coastal capture fishery. This chapter also looks into policies and institutions for capture fisheries management and offers recommendations for improving the situation. | | | Download Chapter » |
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Chapter 5: Sustaining Soil Quality
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| | Chapter 5 explores evidence for a degradation of the soil resource in Bangladesh. It outlines the future challenges facing agriculture in Bangladesh, including the implications of climate change, and reviews agricultural productivity at the national and district levels. It also recommends ways to strengthen the monitoring of soil quality. | | |
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Chapter 6: Institutions for Environmental Management
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| | This chapter underscores the need to improve environmental governance to strengthen incentives for behavior and investments that lead to better environmental quality. It examines the governance system of the Ministry of Environment and Forests and scope for improvement. It also calls for access to environmental information, adequate institutional capacity for credible enforcement of laws and regulations, and economic policies to promote improved environmental performance. | | | Download Chapter » |
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Chapter 7: Environmental Constraints to Growth: Priorities for Additional Action
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| | Chapter 7 recommends key priority actions for tackling the threat of air pollution to human health, better controlling urban and industrial effluent in Dhaka; and protecting capture fisheries. It also underscores the need to improve environmental governance. | | |
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More Resources on Bangladesh
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| | World Bank Program
Website maintained by the World Bank Office in Dhaka, a launching pad to all information on World Bank activities in the country (strategy, projects, publications, etc.) | | | Visit Page » |
| | Bangladesh
Country Assistance Strategy 2006-2009. | | | Visit Page » |
| | Development Data
A wide range of social and economic measures on Bangladesh, including links to the World Bank's most important online development databases. | | | Visit Page » |
| | Analysis and Research
Compilation of all the World Bank's publications on Bangladesh, with 'search' options and links to analysis and research on other South Asian countries. | | | Visit Page » |
| | World Bank Program in South Asia
Launching pad to all information on World Bank activities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. | | | Visit Page » |
| | Request an interview
To interview the report's author e-mail South Asia media contact. | | | Visit Page » |
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