Impact of Urbanization on Microclimatic Change of Dhaka City (Paperback)

In lay terms, Climate Change means a change in the earth's climate-change over a period of decades to centuries and changes that can be both natural and human-induced. Climate change of metropolitan cities in Bangladesh is a major sophisticated issue of present days and also very complex one. It contributes water logging, river erosion, heavy rainfall, flood, temperature rise and other climate disaster that hamper human life and environment cycle. Excessive and uncontrolled population growth in cities is a major problem that accelerates the climate changes. The urbanization rate of our country is more than 25 percent. It makes the cities more congested and simultaneously as a city of dwellers. Pollutions are initiated in this stage. Therefore, we are also become the victim of the global pollution. Our micro climate of cities is reaching worse and makes the cities environmentally vulnerable. Now climatic problem like drought, storm surge, flood etc. is very common that hampers the city development and destroys the positive economic, social growth.