Papers by Shah Md. Atiqul Haq
Front. Sustain. Cities: Looking Beyond Greenness: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Urban, 2021
In the context of rapid climate change, it is important to understand public perceptions of urban... more In the context of rapid climate change, it is important to understand public perceptions of urban green spaces (UGSs), because green spaces have enormous potential as instruments for climate change adaptation and mitigation, and because the development of such spaces both requires and benefits from public support. This article attempts, through an extensive literature review, to understand convergences and divergences in perceptions of urban green spaces (UGSs) of city dwellers around the world and to identify gaps in the existing research. Additionally, the article explores research into the benefits associated with urban green spaces, including health (e.g., physical and mental), social (e.g., social networks and social relationships), economic (e.g., employment and income generation), and environmental (e.g., ecosystem services and biodiversity). This article further seeks to identify the extent to which urban residents have been found to perceive the roles UGSs can play in climate change adaptation and mitigation, and cultural exchange. Based on studies conducted in different countries over the past decade, this paper integrates environmental, social, cultural, and economic aspects of urban greening to provide insight into the similarities and differences in perceptions of urban green spaces and suggest approaches to building climate change resilient urban communities. This paper finds justification for: encouraging the use of integrated, multidisciplinary approaches, using innovative tools, for both the study and practical development of UGSs; conducting a greater number of studies of newer urban areas in developing countries; and considering the diverse disadvantages as well as the advantages of UGSs in order to support the continued development and expansion of this critical climate-friendly infrastructure. The more that residents' perceptions of and attitudes toward UGSs are incorporated into the design of such spaces, the more successful they will be at providing the myriad benefits they have the potential to offer.
Climate change is a big challenge now. Currently, researchers, academics, and policymakers focus ... more Climate change is a big challenge now. Currently, researchers, academics, and policymakers focus on coping with and dealing with the adverse effects of climate change. However, due to climate change impacts, it is impossible to determine the number of coping strategies, primarily when the appropriate coping and adaptation strategies depend on the socioeconomic and cultural context of vulnerable communities facing climate change-related extreme events. Therefore, we cannot deny the current debate between coping strategies and climate change adaptation. In this case, the chapter addresses existing definitions, discussions, and pieces of evidence on coping strategies and adaptations for dealing with the adverse impacts of climate change. It also discusses with examples how the various relationships between climate change-related events and coping strategies or adaptations are different. Researchers present theoretical backgrounds in understanding the nexus between climate change and coping strategies and adaptation contextually. The chapter also includes some discussions of the above linkage in Bangladesh's context. Finally, various empirical studies provide thoughts that the connection between climate change, tackling strategies, and adaptation varies in terms of the severity and types of climate change-related events in which socioeconomic, sociodemographic, and cultural aspects mediate the relationship.
SN Social Sciences, 2021
Since climate change education is an integral element in the increasingly urgent global approach ... more Since climate change education is an integral element in the increasingly urgent global approach to solving the problem of climate change, understanding perceptions of climate change among teachers in different academic institutions could play a significant role in how and to what extent institutions address the need to educate learners on this subject, specifically, and participate in other climate change mitigation strategies, in general. This study, therefore, examines teachers' perceptions of climate change regarding its significance, causes, consequences, and mitigation, through analysis of a self-administered structured questionnaire completed by 95 teachers from public and private educational institutions in the city of Sylhet in Bangladesh. Results from descriptive and inferential statistical analysis show that public and private school teachers have an understanding of climate change regarding its significance, causes, consequences, and mitigation. The results also reveal that the sociodemographic characteristics of teachers, as well as academic-related factors, influence their perceptions of climate change. This research concludes that teachers in public institutions have a greater awareness and understanding of climate change than those working in private schools. The research findings have broader implications for further research and policy recommendations and, in particular, draw the attention of the Departments of Education and Disaster Management in Bangladesh or in countries with similar contexts to introduce environmental and disaster education and training opportunities for teachers.
Springer, 2020
This study is concerned with the perceptions of university students in Bangladesh regarding clima... more This study is concerned with the perceptions of university students in Bangladesh regarding climate change. A self-administered questionnaire survey was filed out by 650 final-year undergraduate students studying in a variety of academic disciplines at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. This study found that a majority of respondents perceive temperatures in Bangladesh as increasing and rainfall as decreasing. A majority also think that climate change is due to human activities such as deforestation, dredging rivers, extracting sand from rivers, the development of industry, and carbon emissions from vehicles, while a significant but smaller proportion perceived it as punishment from God for human sin. We examined the effects of selected variables-students' sex, religious affiliation, involvement in an environmental organization, completion of university courses related to the environment or climate change, academic discipline of study, and past experience of extreme weather events in their home locality-using three multinomial logistic regression (MLR) models on perceived changes in temperature, perceived changes in rainfall, and perceived causes of climate change. The MLR analysis regarding the perceived changes in temperature indicates that effects of sex, experience of extreme weather event in their home locality, and the completion of climate change-related courses are statistically significant. For perceived changes in rainfall, these are significantly explained by all predictors except completion of a climate change-related course. And finally, for perceived causes of climate change, the effects of students' experiences with extreme weather events in their hometown and involvement in an environmental organization were found to be statistically significant.
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania , 2019
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change along with the adverse impacts of climate chang... more Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change along with the adverse impacts of climate change. This paper aims to reveal the debates about climate change and extreme weather events. It considers Bangladesh as a case to understand the debates, the impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods. This paper used secondary sources to select and scrutunize recent literatures about climate change, extreme events, the impacts of climate change on livelihood patterns and future trends. Increase of minimum and maximum temperature and average rainfall are evident in this country along with the future projection regarding increase of temperature and precipitation. As a result sea level will rise and flood events will frequently occur in the future. The intensity, severity and extent of flooding will also be higher in the near future. It is evident that the negative impacts of extreme events will bring difficulties and challenges for people living in vulnerable areas and consequently will cause a lot of damage and loss of life. That demands paying more attention to climate change and context based adaptation strategies and integrative policy.
The nexus between extreme weather events, sexual violence, and early marriage: a study of vulnerable populations in Bangladesh
Population and Environment, 2019
This study aims to explore whether a relationship exists between extreme weather events, sexual v... more This study aims to explore whether a relationship exists between extreme weather events, sexual violence, and early marriage. We selected two districts in Bangladesh that are vulnerable to extreme weather events: Sunamganj, which experiences flash flooding, and Brahmanbaria, which experiences cyclones and related floods. Survey data was collected from 120 randomly selected household heads from two villages in these districts, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 40 household heads who indicated early marriage was a coping strategy for managing effects of weather events. The mixed-methods study finds that early marriage of daughters is a coping strategy for managing two negative consequences of extreme weather events. First, by minimizing household expenses, householders can pay for damage-related expenses. Second, unmarried daughters may be subject to sexual violence during a crisis, especially in temporary shelters, which would harm both the family’s and daughter’s reputation and prevent future marriage.
The study attempts to uncover how people living in vulnerable areas address the relationship betw... more The study attempts to uncover how people living in vulnerable areas address the relationship between the impacts of extreme weather events (floods) and fertility preference. The study selected a village, Sharat Pur from Sunamganj District, which is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of flooding. The study gathered information from 158 respondents by using a semi-structured questionnaire and in-depth interviews. With the small sample size the study used descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis. Findings show that there is still a preference for more sons to recover the damage caused from the impacts of floods. However, people think having a large family is a burden. They emphasize controlling family size through family planning programs and do not take into account the risk of children dying affecting their desire to have additional children. Therefore they consider having more children especially sons as a gift from God and the occurrence of flood events as the wish of God. The intention of the study is not to generalize findings but to comprehend the underlying mechanism between disaster events and fertility behavior. The study collected information from a very small sample size. Future studies might consider a large sample size and explore more deeply the mechanism between the different disaster events and fertility decisions by using a comparative analysis between regions vulnerable to different extreme weather events and not vulnerable to extreme weather events within Bangladesh, and comparing Bangladesh with other South Asian countries.
This study tried to understand the nexus between socio-cultural factors and fertility preference ... more This study tried to understand the nexus between socio-cultural factors and fertility preference in a vulnerable (flood prone) area of Bangladesh. Socio-cultural factors influence age at first marriage of women and age at first birth of child. The factors also influence couples' fertility preferences. This study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the relationships between socio-cultural factors and fertility preference in a flood prone area. This study reveals that women and men with a few years of schooling got married at an earlier age compared to others. Couples prefer to have child as soon as possible after getting married and the time span between two births is also short in the vulnerable area. This study finds that age at first birth of women depends on their age at first marriage. This study also reveals that couples experience a longer birth interval after the first birth, if the child is a son. This indicates the existence of gender preference. But there is no statistically significant difference between men and women in the study area. This study also highlights that the socio-cultural factors such as education, contraceptive use, gender preference, social pressures and religion influence vulnerable people to prefer more children along with adverse impacts of flood events. This study suggests further studies by considering a large sample from vulnerable areas and doing a comparative study between vulnerable areas and non-vulnerable areas to disaster events. Keywords: age at first marriage, age at first birth, birth order, socio-cultural factors, vulnerable area
Population and Environment: Necessary Transition Initiatives for Developing Countries
CHINESE JOURNAL OF POPULATION …, Jan 1, 2009
... 并且配置获取通知的方式 。 关闭. 下载PDF阅读器. 作者 ：, Shah Md.Atiqul Haq. 作者单位 ：, Department of Sociology,Social ... more ... 并且配置获取通知的方式 。 关闭. 下载PDF阅读器. 作者 ：, Shah Md.Atiqul Haq. 作者单位 ：, Department of Sociology,Social Science Building,Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology,Sylhet,Bangladesh. 期 刊：, 中国人口·资源与环境（英文版）. Journal ...
Journal of Water Resource and …, Jan 1, 2010
Mekong River Basin is a life for many people in six south East Asian countries. The river basin i... more Mekong River Basin is a life for many people in six south East Asian countries. The river basin is very productive and has crucial activities like: fishing, agriculture, hydroelectric power, transportation, biodiversity and so on. However, due to mismanagement, political intentions and one way interest only for development, the river basin has already started experiencing complications. The major challenges found out were, huge hydroelectric dam constructions and other projects, high population pressure, lack of cooperation among riparian states (especially upper Mekong region and lower one), and lack of proper management system. This leads to inequitable resource use, impact on water quality, biodiversity loss, and disasters like flooding. It is a high time to make a joint venture among riparian countries for sustainable use of the resource. Multi lateral cooperation and commitment among user countries by consulting all stakeholders will benefit all to use this precious resource equitably without major ecological impacts on the river basin.
Implications of Demographic Transition Theory: A critical Discussion Regarding the Developing Countries
Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Jan 1, 2008
Journal of Sustainable Development
This paper explores how people perceive about family size and environmental degradation. Many stu... more This paper explores how people perceive about family size and environmental degradation. Many studies explain people perception to family size or environmental degradation independently. Considering both of the concepts as interrelated, how people consider the relation between family size and environmental degradation, and how their perception subsequently influence on contraceptive use in developing countries. People who think their immediate environment such as land productivity, soil fertility, water level and biodiversity is declining are more concerned about their family size and contraceptive use than who do not think that their environment is declining. Children in poor area or forest area are involved with fuel wood and water collection. Parents especially women perceive additional child as helping hand in domestic work or fuel wood and water collection. In reality socioeconomic development particularly women education, participation to reproductive decision and access to contraception, and improvement of environmental qualities such as proper sanitation, drinking water, and environmental awareness are important to change people perception to larger family size. As a result people will start thinking that environmental degradation is the result of over access to natural resources.
Journal of Environmental Protection, Jan 1, 2011
This paper explains the benefits and challenges of urban green spaces based on the critical discu... more This paper explains the benefits and challenges of urban green spaces based on the critical discussion of study results from different studies in different cities. The important roles played by green spaces are social, economic, cultural and environmental aspects of sustainable development. Urban green spaces can be a comprehensive tool for long term protection of environmental sustainability through improving the quality of life and air quality, increasing property value due to their amenity and aesthetic characteristics, and reducing the energy costs of cooling buildings. Urban green spaces also can provide ecosystem services in which the recreation and relaxation facilities are especially available to urban dwellers and tourists too. To confirm the multiple roles played by green spaces, certain level of qualitative improvements and distribution of green spaces within the urban area should be considered and incorporated effectively into the environmental sustainability agenda. To do this, an integrated approach regarding the planning, monitoring, designing and maintaining of urban green spaces is required for improving the environmental sustainability in cities in different countries.
Nexus between Perception, Environment and Fertility: A Study on Indigenous People in Bangladesh
Sustainable Development
ABSTRACT Population growth and the environment is now a major discussion issue. Most cases of exc... more ABSTRACT Population growth and the environment is now a major discussion issue. Most cases of excessive preference for a larger family size are involved with environmental degradation in developing countries. Moreover, rural or indigenous people living in forest areas have ...
Perception of Environmental Degradation and Family Size: A Comparative Study on Married Man and Women (Indigenous People) in Bangladesh
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Abstract: In the study we try to understand and compare how the married man and women in the indi... more Abstract: In the study we try to understand and compare how the married man and women in the indigenous community (Khasia people), Bangladesh perceive the relation between family size and environmental degradation. The findings of the study show that people who think ...
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Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change along with the adverse impacts of climate chang... more Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change along with the adverse impacts of climate change. This paper aims to reveal the debates about climate change and extreme weather events. It considers Bangladesh as a case to understand the debates, the impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods. This paper used secondary sources to select and scrutunize recent literatures about climate change, extreme events, the impacts of climate change on livelihood patterns and future trends. Increase of minimum and maximum temperature and average rainfall are evident in this country along with the future projection regarding increase of temperature and precipitation. As a result sea level will rise and flood events will frequently occur in the future. The intensity, severity and extent of flooding will also be higher in the near future. It is evident that the negative impacts of extreme events will bring difficulties and challenges for people living in vulnerable areas and consequently will cause a lot of damage and loss of life. That demands paying more attention to climate change and context based adaptation strategies and integrative policy.
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