The geographic location of Bangladesh at the confluence of the three mighty river systems of the world renders her one of the most vulnerable places to natural disasters. Human-induced climate change exacerbates the problem. This study shows that the Government of Bangladesh has already...

Char (Bengali term for riverine island) is a unique socioecological system associated with a large alluvial river. About 4 % of the 160 million people of Bangladesh, who are mostly poor, live in chars, which are located within and alongside its major rivers—the Jamuna, Ganges and Meghna....