| Project Detail |
Liveable and Inclusive Cities for All (LICA). Bangladesh faces the dual challenge of managing its rapid urbanisation in sustainable ways while also adapting to the enormous impacts of climate change. Urban areas, especially near the coast or along rivers, are severely affected by climate change, for example by flooding, overheating and other extreme weather events. The government of Bangladesh projects that between 2011 and 2050,16-26 million people will be forced to leave their homes and migrate to cities. Because they are growing so rapidly, cities encounter complex challenges which they are not well equipped to address. The increasing degradation of the urban environment particularly affects valuable green spaces (such as public parks, recreation areas, playgrounds, riverbanks) and blue spaces (surface waters such as reservoirs, canals, and rivers). Their functions as air filters, floodplains, and drainage areas and the role they play in heat reduction and biodiversity are becoming lost in the dense urbanisation. This is exacerbated by poor management, in which poor urban waste treatment is a key element. |
