Annotated Bibliography of Economic consequences of failed autonomous adaptation to extreme floods: A case study from Bangladesh

Younus, M. A. F., & Harvey, N. (2014). Economic consequences of failed autonomous adaptation to extreme floods: A case study from Bangladesh. Local Economy, 29(1-2), 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094213515175

This journal article, Younus and Harvey (2014) focused on sustainable strategy of autonomous crop adaptation in Bangladesh. The authors argued that autonomous adaptation is an important policy response option. On the other hand, the authors found that in response to flood events, economic consequences are very high when autonomous adaptation is failed. The authors concluded that urgent action is needed to improve the sustainable adaptation capacity at community level to mitigate food and human insecurity in the foreseeable future to cope with extreme floods under a regime of climate change.

This journal article serves as an excellent reflection of autonomous adaptation and impacts on future development planning process in response to extreme flood events. Overall, this journal article is thorough, descriptive and well researched; it includes failure effects of autonomous and its economic consequences. This article could be potentially useful to support my rebuttal argument about the climate concern that the industry alternatively needs to address.