Bangladesh sea walls may make floods worse

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2975, 2014, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bangladesh is one of the countries at most risk from climate change, as it is low-lying and could be swamped by rising seas--particularly if they rise by several meters. Now it seems the very embankments built to protect its people could be making them more vulnerable to floods. Bangladesh is about to upgrade 600 kilometers of coastal embankments in the Sundarbans delta region in its south-west. It is using $400 million from the World Bank. The bank says the upgrade will "build resilience to climate change". But British geomorphologist John Pethick says the upgraded embankments will put millions at risk. He has angered Bangladeshi scientists by arguing that coastal defenses in the Sundarbans delta are doing more harm than good.