Swapan Talukdar, Bonosri Ghose, Shahfahad, Roquia Salam et al.
Huraera Jabeen, Cassidy Johnson, Adriana Allen
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settl...
Anupam Khajuria, Vella A. Atienza, Suchana Chavanich, Wilts Henning et al.
Circular economy seems a vital enabler for sustainable use of natural resources which is also important for achieving the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals. Therefore, a special session addressing issues of “sustainable solutions and remarkable practices in circular economy focusing mate...
Maminul Haque Sarker, Iffat Huque, Mustafa Alam, Rob Koudstaal
Abstract Bangladesh consists mainly of riverine and deltaic deposits of three large and extremely dynamic rivers entering the country: the Brahmaputra, Ganges and Meghna rivers. The average flood discharges of these rivers (individually) are within the range of 14,000 to 100,000 m3/s. Islands and ba...
Heather McMillen, Tamara Ticktin, Alan M. Friedlander, Stacy D. Jupiter et al.
McMillen, H. L., T. Ticktin, A. Friedlander, S. D. Jupiter, R. Thaman, J. Campbell, J. Veitayaki, T. Giambelluca, S. Nihmei, E. Rupeni, L. Apis-Overhoff, W. Aalbersberg, and D. F. Orcherton. 2014. Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in...
Greg J. Duncan, Mimi Engel, Amy Claessens, Chantelle Dowsett
Replications and robustness checks are key elements of the scientific method and a staple in many disciplines. However, leading journals in developmental psychology rarely include explicit replications of prior research conducted by different investigators, and few require authors to establish in th...
John Pethick, Julian D. Orford
Dominic O’Sullivan, Mubarak Rahamathulla, Manohar Pawar
This article describes and discusses the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia, its impact on people and the economy and policy responses to these impacts. It discusses the implications of these responses for post-pandemic recovery, though noting that the country’s response to the coronavi...
Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Ashraf Dewan, Jim W. Hall
The construction of polders in the coastal region of Bangladesh has significantly modified the patterns of flooding, as well as leading to significant land use/land cover (hereinafter, LULC) changes. The impact of LULC change and flooding on poverty is complex and poorly understood. This study prese...
Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, Kees van der Geest, Istiakh Ahmed, Saleemul Huq et al.
The Ganges–Brahmaputra delta enables Bangladesh to sustain a dense population, but it also exposes people to natural hazards. This article presents findings from the Gibika project, which researches livelihood resilience in seven study sites across Bangladesh. This study aims to understand how peopl...
Nazmul Huq, Jean Hugé, Emmanuel Boon, Animesh K. Gain
This paper identifies and analyses climate change impacts, their cascading consequences and the livelihood implications of these impacts on smallholder agricultural communities of coastal Bangladesh. Six physically and socio-economically vulnerable communities of south-western coastal regions were s...
T. M. Hopson, Peter J. Webster
Abstract This paper describes a fully automated scheme that has provided calibrated 1–10-day ensemble river discharge forecasts and predictions of severe flooding of the Brahmaputra and Ganges Rivers as they flow into Bangladesh; it has been operational since 2003. The Bangladesh forecasting problem...
Karl Erickson, Jean Côté, Jessica Fraser‐Thomas
What experiences are needed to become a high-performance coach? The present study addressed this question through structured retrospective quantitative interviews with 10 team- and 9 individual-sport coaches at the Canadian interuniversity-sport level. Minimum amounts of certain experiences were dee...
Md. Monirul Islam, Kimiteru Sado
Abstract Flood hazard maps were developed using remote sensing (RS) data for the historical event of the 1988 flood with data of elevation height, and geological and physiographic divisions. Flood damage depends on the hydraulic factors which include characteristics of the flood such as the depth of...
Chris Griffiths, Justhna Motlib, Abdul Kalam Azad, Jean Ramsay et al.
BACKGROUND: Reducing the impact of chronic disease in minority ethnic groups is an important public health challenge. Lay-led education may overcome cultural and language barriers that limit the effectiveness of professionally-led programmes. We report the first randomised trial of a lay-led self-ma...