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Bhuapur (Tangail)

Local Gov

A western Tangail upazila on the Jamuna riverbank, squarely on the district's flood-and-erosion frontier.

Wealth rank 302/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

  1. climate disaster Bhuapur sits directly on Tangail's Jamuna-fed flood-and-erosion frontier, where bank erosion and monsoon flooding repeatedly threaten riverside settlements and char land. So what: Erosion swallows homesteads and cropland, displacing riverine households. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board
  2. agriculture Char and floodplain farming here is highly exposed to flooding and erosion alongside the district's warming pressure. So what: Lost and damaged char cropland undermines food security for vulnerable households. Source: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)
  3. poverty Bhuapur's RWI mean of -0.003 sits near the middle of the upazila wealth distribution, with riverbank and char populations more exposed than the average suggests. So what: Erosion-prone char households face deprivation that aggregate wealth figures obscure. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

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