Sundarbans

• Resilience


  One of the 3 main types of human responses used to overcome threats in the Sundarbans
• Increasing access to clean water and sanitation

  Improve health and quality of life for residents
• Building better roads and bridges


  Improve access for residents
• Building more roads and bridges

  Can lead to deforestation and other environmental damage
• Extending mains electricity and providing subsidised solar panels


  Allow remote villages to generate their own power
• Providing electricity and solar power

  Makes it easier for flood warnings to reach communities and could create employment opportunities
• Providing farming subsidies and jobs


  Decrease poverty and increase food security
• Intensive farming


  May cause environmental damage
• Offering training in sustainable fishing and farming

  Help prevent environmental damage from exploitation or poor practices
• Building 3500km of embankments


  Prevent flooding
• Embankments being eroded and vulnerable to storms

  Soil is soft and can't properly support the heavy structures, leading to collapse and being very expensive
• Mangrove reforestation in areas that had been removed


  Helps protect coastal areas from flooding and erosion
• Preventing illegal forest clearance throughout the region

  Unclear whether the mangroves will be able to withstand sea level rise
• Providing funding for cyclone shelters and early warning systems

  Help people shelter and evacuate during extreme events
• Cyclone shelters and early warning systems


  Many people may not have access to them