Focusing trans-boundary water regime of Ganges- Brahmaputra- Meghna (GBM) basin, this situation analysis paper discusses the core issues related to environmental security through analyzing various environmental impacts and its significance at the national and regional level.

This study is a part of "Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods for Vulnerable Ecosystems" (RESOLVE) programme, which intends to explore the magnitude and impacts of different natural hazards namely flood, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, water scarcity in livelihood system, more particularly agriculture in project districts.

Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh are managing forests around their homesteads in a sustainable way despite exclusion of customary rights on government managed reserved forests,. Bangladesh, as one of the forest poor countries in the world, is continuously struggling to conserve its forest resources.