IB GEOGRAPHY: GLOBAL CLIMATE (Bangladesh vs Ghana Contrasting Vulnerability Case Study)

GHANA: Infrastructure development

Building dams and levees and sea walls

GHANA: Impacts in the forest

1. Decreased food security 2. Dry-ups of water bodies and underground water 3. Population pressure of land 4. Increased risk of forest fires

GHANA: Impacts of climate change?

1. Decreased water availability 2. Increased illness 3. Out migration 4. Increasing poverty

GHANA: Impacts in coastal savanna

1. Decreased water availability and quality 2. Higher burden on women 3. Increased migration 4. Increased cholera

GHANA: Impacts in northern Savanna

1. Increased morbidity and disease 2. Increased vulnerability of the poor 3. Increased out migration

GHANA: Responses

1. Infrastructure development 2. Ecosystem preservation 3. Education

BANGLADESH: How much will monsoon rainfall increase by?

14-40% in 2030s, and 52-135% by the 2090s

BANGLADESH: When was the flood action plan developed?

1988

BANGLADESH: What is Bangladesh at risk of?

Flooding

Sluice gate

Gate used in a channel used to control rates of water flow

GHANA: What is Ghana at risk of?

Lack of water

GHANA: Which ecosystems need preserving?

Mangrove swamps

BANGLADESH: Why is it at risk?

Most of the country is on a low lying delta

BANGLADESH: What are the houses built from?

Mud and sand

BANGLADESH: What has increased the impact of flooding?

Poor infrastructure means when a flood happens, the effects will be worse

BANGLADESH: What is the Flood Action Plan?

Sluice gates were built, 5700km of embankments were built, 5000km of drainage channels were built, 200 flood shelters were built

BANGLADESH: Where?

South Asia

GHANA: Who is most vulnerable?

The poor, women, the elderly, children, the infirm, indigenous groups, minority groups and refugees

GHANA: Where?

West Africa