David Mutton, C. Emdad Haque
The purpose of this research was to identify and analyse patterns of economic and social adaptation among river-bank erosion-induced displacees in Bangladesh. It was hypothesised that the role of social demographic and socio-economic variables in determining the coping ability and recovery of the ri...
Bimal Kanti Paul
Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath ...
Elizabeth L. Bennett, A. Neiland, Emilia Anang, Paul Bannerman et al.
Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler
This paper examines land grabbing in Bangladesh and views such seizures through the lens of displacement and land encroachment. Two different but potentially interacting displacement processes are examined. The first, the char riverine and coastal sediment regions that are in a constant state of for...
Farhana Sultana
Community and participation have become popular in development discourse and practice, particularly in the global South and in relation to water resources management. Greater involvement of people in decisionmaking, implementation and evaluation of water management practices is expected to increase ...
Gustavo Ángeles, Peter Lance, Janine Barden-O’Fallon, Nazrul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The concentration of poverty and adverse environmental circumstances within slums, particularly those in the cities of developing countries, are an increasingly important concern for both public health policy initiatives and related programs in other sectors. However, there is a dearth o...
Nasir Uddin
This paper examines the sustainability of urban development through the livelihood conditions of slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The empirical data were collected through interview schedule and FGD from 97 respondents in two slum areas of Bangladesh. The respondents were selected purposively from the s...
C. Emdad Haque, M. Q. Zaman
As a deltaic plain, Bangladesh annually experiences riverbank erosion hazard due to sudden and rapid channel shifting, particularly in the major floodplain areas of the country. Consequently, valuable cultivable land is lost; also village settlements, markets and towns are destroyed, displacing tens...
Asit K. Biswas
Abstract The transboundary Himalayan rivers flowing through Bhutan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh provide a golden opportunity to improve the standard of living of the largest concentration of the poor people in the world. Bhutan and India have shown that, given goodwill and trust between the countrie...
Asit K. Biswas, Olli Varis, Cecilia Tortajada
PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. EXTERNALITIES OF INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT FOR SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 2.INTEGRATION IN BITS AND PARTS: A CASE STUDY FOR INDIA 3. SABARMATI RIVER BASIN (INDIA): PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 4. INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEM...
Md. Fakrul Islam, ANM Baslur Rashid
Environmental refugees are one of the most burning issues at this time throughout the world. Bangladesh, a riverine country, is suffering from acquit riverbank erosion which compels millions of her population to be displaced from their place of origin. As such, 283 locations, 85 towns and growth cen...
Muhammad Zaman
This paper describes and explains human adjustments to riverbank erosion hazard in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna floodplain of Bangladesh. It critically reviews the dominant theoretical orientations found in the study of natural hazards. Both survey and in-depth anthropological data from Bangladesh village...
Ramaganesh Marimuthu, Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan, Syed Mithun Ali, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour et al.
This paper seeks to develop a framework to identify, analyse, and assess the mining industry's key challenges in terms of environmental, operational, and social issues. For each issue, 15 challenges have been identified from experts’ opinions and from the relevant literature; each is examined in a r...
Hugh Brammer
The main objectives of the Bangladesh Flood Action Plan (FAP), to protect the country from river floods, were not achieved, for several political, economic and institutional reasons. Demographic and economic changes in the following 20 years have increased Bangladesh's exposure to damaging floods. T...
Ashok Swain
Abstract Recently, a substantial amount of research has been devoted to establishing that environmental destruction itself may be the cause of conflict. Conflicts may arise directly due to scarcity of resources caused by environmental destruction, and can also be the potential consequence of environ...