* Land and Water Management in Coastal Zones: Dealing with Agriculture-Aquaculture-Fishery Conflicts, J W Gowing, T P Tuong and C T Hoanh, * Adapting to Aquaculture in Vietnam: Securing Livelihoods in a Context of Change in Two Coastal Communities, C Luttrell, Overseas Development Institute, UK * Li...
Valentina Lauria, Isha Das, Sugata Hazra, Ignacio Cazcarro et al.
Deltas are home to a large and growing proportion of the world's population, often living in conditions of extreme poverty. Deltaic ecosystems are ecologically significant as they support high biodiversity and a variety of fisheries, however these coastal environments are extremely vulnerable to cli...
Abdullahel Bari
The Blue Economy is regarded as the decoupling of socio-economic activities and development from environmental degradation and optimizing the benefits which may be derived from marine resources. The attitude of achieving long-term prosperity by a country or a region befitting the wellbeing of all ci...
Kristina M. Gjerde, Lora L. Nordtvedt Reeve, Harriet Harden‐Davies, Jeff Ardron et al.
Abstract Marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) comprise most of Earth's interconnected ocean, hosting complex ecosystems that play key roles in sustaining life and providing important goods and services. Although ABNJ encompass nearly half the planet's surface, biological diversity found ...
Riffat Mahmood, Naser Ahmed, Li Zhang, Guoqing Li
Bangladesh is one of the most geomorphologically active countries situated within the World's largest basin of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM). The physiographic settings of the southward coastal areas of Bangladesh is completely exposed to the sea posing vulnerability to natural hazards whereas...
Stephen A. Timko, Cristina Romera‐Castillo, Rudolf Jaffé, William J. Cooper
Natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the major absorber of sunlight in most natural waters and a critical component of carbon cycling in aquatic systems. The combined effect of light absorbance properties and related photo-production of reactive species are essential in determining the reactivi...
Shak Md. Bazlur Rahaman, Lipton Sarder, Md. Sayadur Rahaman, Alokesh Kumar Ghosh et al.
Seasonal and tidal variations in nutrient concentration and water quality were investigated in the western Sundarbans of Bangladesh during the post-monsoon, winter and monsoon seasons during 2010–2011. Water collected from the surface, middle and bottom layers at six locations of the Kholpetua-Arpan...
Hafez Ahmad
Coastal Zone (CZ) is the region where land, ocean and atmosphere interact with each other hence it is dynamic and diverse in nature. This zone is being continually attacked by cyclones, sea level rise, storm surge which have caused terrible impacts on this low lying coastal area. The complex and act...
Tanzim Afroz, Shawkat Alam
M.A. Rakib, Jun Sasaki, Sosimohan Pal, Md. Asif Newaz et al.
Climatic threats force disruption on community lifestyles by impairing social factors, the fundamental components of ensuring social sustainability. This study investigates the situational factors affecting the consequences on coastal livelihoods, and social activities; it also considers the effecti...
Asib Ahmed, Frances Drake, Rizwan Nawaz, Clare Woulds
This paper draws upon the application of GIS and remote sensing techniques to investigate the dynamic nature and management aspects of land in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. The geomorphological characteristic of the coastal areas is highly dynamic where land erosion and accretion with different r...
Cassandra M. Brooks, Larry B. Crowder, Lisa M. Curran, Robert B. Dunbar et al.
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Md. Rafiqul Islam
Land use in coastal Bangladesh is diverse, competitive and conflicting. Agriculture, shrimp farming, salt production, forestry, ship-breaking yards, ports, industry, settlements and wetlands are some of the uses. Land uses have gone through major changes. Land use in the 1950s had been mainly for pa...
Pawan G. Patil, John Virdin, Charles S. Colgan, Pierre Failler et al.
This report aims to synthesize the current theory and practice of the blue economy concept to govern economic activity linked to the ocean, and to provide a framework for the Government of Bangladesh to analyze its potential. With the peaceful resolution of maritime boundary disputes with its neighb...
M. Gulam Hussain, Pierre Failler, A. Al Karim, M. Khurshed Alam
This paper elucidates the major opportunities of economic sectors to the development of blue economy and highlights the constraints in achieving this goal in Bangladesh.The productive economic sectors of blue economy are emphasised and considered in harnessing the full utilization of ocean based res...