Naila Matin, G. M. Jahid Hasan
The dynamic shoreline of Bangladesh was analyzed for the last thirty years in this study, in order to identify the positional changes due to erosion and accretion. Remotely acquired, multi-temporal Landsat images, of 30 m resolution and comparable tidal conditions, were collected for the period 1989...
Fiifi Amoako Johnson, Craig W. Hutton, Duncan Hornby, Attila N. Lázár et al.
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of Bangladesh is one of the most populous deltas in the world, supporting as many as 140 million people. The delta is threatened by diverse environmental stressors including salinity intrusion, with adverse consequences for livelihood and health. Shrimp farming is...
Parvin Sultana, S. Abeyasekera
This study provides statistical evidence that support for community-based management of resources was more effective when initiated through a process known as participatory action plan development (PAPD). Thirty-six sites were studied where community management of fisheries was facilitated by NGOs. ...
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...
S. M. Didar-Ul Islam, Mohammad Amir Hossain Bhuiyan
Bangladesh is one of the major shrimp-producing countries in the world. It is blessing with an advantageous natural setting for shrimp farming and contributes the national economy of Bangladesh since mid-1980s. Although shrimp culture provides millions of employment and has profits about US$ 450 mil...
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.
The burden of proof is being turned upside down
Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Ben Belton, K. Kuperan Viswanathan
Fisheries management involves balancing the competing demands of different users of fishery resources. Conflicts among fisheries stakeholders arise due to differences in power, interests, values, priorities, and manner of resource exploitation. Conflicts also emanate from institutional failures in m...
Paul M. Thompson, Parvin Sultana, Nurul Islam
Inland (floodplain) fisheries remain the most important contributor to fish production in Bangladesh. They have in the past been administered to generate government revenue without due concern for sustainability or equity. Community Based Fisheries Management (CBFM) is a possible solution and was te...
Ameer Abdulla, Marina Gomei, David Hyrenbach, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara et al.
Abstract Abdulla, A., Gomei, M., Hyrenbach, D., Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, G., and Agardy, T. 2009. Challenges facing a network of representative marine protected areas in the Mediterranean: prioritizing the protection of underrepresented habitats. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 22–28. The high ...
Md Mizanur Rahman, Vincentas Giedraitis, Leslie Sue Lieberman, Mrs.Tahmina Akhtar et al.
Despite unplanned and haphazard expansion of shrimp cultivation that immensely affects on the coastal regions of Bangladesh, the exploration of its adverse effects has not received significant attention from the researcher community yet. There were few researches and studies in Bangladesh conducted ...
Nesar Ahmed, Anna Occhipinti‐Ambrogi, James Muir
Manuel González‐Rivero, Pim Bongaerts, Oscar Beijbom, Oscar Pizarro et al.
ABSTRACT Marine ecosystems provide critically important goods and services to society, and hence their accelerated degradation underpins an urgent need to take rapid, ambitious and informed decisions regarding their conservation and management. The capacity, however, to generate the detailed field d...
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...
Annabelle Bladon, Kate Short, Essam Yassin Mohammed, E.J. Milner‐Gulland
Abstract Payments for Ecosystem Services ( PES ) is a powerful economic tool that gives positive conditional incentives for the provision of additional ecosystem services over the status quo, which has been used widely in terrestrial conservation. Interest in the concept of marine PES has recently e...