Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce et al.
In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related "Aichi Targets" to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. W...
Ashraf Dewan, Yasushi Yamaguchi
Shaikh Shamim Hasan, Lin Zhen, Md. Giashuddin Miah, Tofayel Ahamed et al.
Changes in land use and ecosystem services influence each other and such changes have consequences for human wellbeing. In this paper, we review the research literature on how different types of ecosystem services are affected by LUC, and the consequences for human well-being. We begin with a review...
Chandra Giri, Bruce W. Pengra, Zhiliang Zhu, Ashbindu Singh et al.
Christopher Kennedy, Iain D. Stewart, Angelo Facchini, Igor Cersosimo et al.
Understanding the drivers of energy and material flows of cities is important for addressing global environmental challenges. Accessing, sharing, and managing energy and material resources is particularly critical for megacities, which face enormous social stresses because of their sheer size and co...
Chandra Giri, Zhiliang Zhu, Larry L. Tieszen, Ajay Singh et al.
Abstract Aim We aimed to estimate the present extent of tsunami‐affected mangrove forests and determine the rates and causes of deforestation from 1975 to 2005. Location Our study region covers the tsunami‐affected coastal areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Bangladesh, India an...
Ashraf Dewan, Yasushi Yamaguchi
This paper illustrates the result of land use/cover change in Dhaka Metropolitan of Bangladesh using topographic maps and multi-temporal remotely sensed data from 1960 to 2005. The Maximum likelihood supervised classification technique was used to extract information from satellite data, and post-cl...
Bayes Ahmed, Md. Kamruzzaman, Xuan Zhu, Md. Shahinoor Rahman et al.
Despite research that has been conducted elsewhere, little is known, to-date, about land cover dynamics and their impacts on land surface temperature (LST) in fast growing mega cities of developing countries. Landsat satellite images of 1989, 1999, and 2009 of Dhaka Metropolitan (DMP) area were used...
Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Arif Masrur, Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Md. Abdullah Al Baky et al.
Although a detailed analysis of land use and land cover (LULC) change is essential in providing a greater understanding of increased human-environment interactions across the coastal region of Bangladesh, substantial challenges still exist for accurately classifying coastal LULC. This is due to the ...
Laila Hossain, Sumit Kanti Sarker, Mohidus Samad Khan
The textile sector has been an important part of Bangladesh’s (BD) economy over the past few decades. In Bangladesh, the textile sector currently has an export value of nearly 28 billion USD per year which contributes about 82% of the country’s total export earnings. It is projected that the annual ...
Kamrul Islam, Mohammed Jashimuddin, Biswajit Nath, Tapan Kumar Nath
The degraded Chunati wildlife sanctuary (CWS) has undergone various land use changes since 1980s. In this study, land use changes of CWS were assessed from 2005 to 2015 by using Landsat TM and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS images. The ArcGIS v10.1 and ERDAS Imagine v14 were used to process satellite imageries ...
Talukder Byomkesh, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Ashraf Dewan
Walter Leal Filho, Abdul‐Lateef Balogun, Olawale Emmanuel Olayide, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro et al.
Many cities across the world are facing many problems climate change poses to their populations, communities and infrastructure. These vary from increased exposures to floods, to discomfort due to urban heat, depending on their geographical locations and settings. However, even though some cities ha...
Ashraf Dewan, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Md Ziaur Rahman
Nathalie Seddon, Elizabeth Daniels, Rowan Davis, Alexandre Chausson et al.
Non-technical summary Ecosystems across the globe are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as are the communities that depend on them. However, ecosystems can also protect people from climate change impacts. As the evidence base strengthens, nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly prom...