Jorge Alvar, Iván Darío Vélez, Caryn Bern, Mercè Herrero et al.
As part of a World Health Organization-led effort to update the empirical evidence base for the leishmaniases, national experts provided leishmaniasis case data for the last 5 years and information regarding treatment and control in their respective countries and a comprehensive literature review wa...
M. G. Quibria, Shamsun Naher Ahmed, Ted Tschang, Mari-Len Reyes-Macasaquit
Douglas B. Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi et al.
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Haroun Er Rashid
In its struggle for independence, Bangladesh became the focal point of world attention in the early 1970s. It emerged victorious, but its development was hindered by the after-effects of the war—the destruction of much of its infrastructure, problems of governmental change, and the enormous difficul...
Nurul Islam, G Angeles, A. Q. M. Mahbub, Peter Lance et al.
This report presents results from a census and mapping of slums in the six main cities of Bangladesh in 2005. This effort has generated a wealth of information about the location and basic characteristics of their slums. The outputs include detailed maps of the six cities providing timely informatio...
Jo‐Anne Reid, Bill Green, Maxine Cooper, Wendy Hastings et al.
The complex interconnection among issues affecting rural—regional sustainability requires an equally complex program of research to ensure the attraction and retention of high-quality teachers for rural children. The educational effects of the construction of the rural within a deficit discourse are...
Dimitrios Buhalis, Xi Yu Leung, Daisy X.F. Fan, Simon Darcy et al.
Thomas W. Hertel, L. Alan Winters
This study reports on the findings from \n a major international research project investigating the \n poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda \n (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several \n strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive \n a...
Małgorzata Blicharska, R. Smithers, Magdalena Kuchler, Ganesh Kumar Agrawal et al.
Abiy S. Kebede, Robert J. Nicholls, Andrew Allan, Iñaki Arto et al.
project with the purpose of exploring migration and adaptation in three deltas across West Africa and South Asia: (i) the Volta delta (Ghana), (ii) the Mahanadi delta (India), and (iii) the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) delta (Bangladesh/India). Using a climate scenario that encompasses a wide ran...
Mahfuz Kabir, Ruhul Salim, Nasser Al-Mawali
Zhe Chen, Apurbo Sarkar, Airin Rahman, Xiaojing Li et al.
D. R. Stoddart
Geography as an integral branch of knowledge has suffered by an increasing division both between physical and human geography and between specialisms within each. It is argued that neither physical nor human geography has a viable independent existence, but in the absence of a unified geography will...
Fajle Rabbi Ashik, Sadia Alam Mim, Meher Nigar Neema
To ensure adequate access to urban facilities, it is important for urban planners to achieve equity in the geographical arrangement of such facilities. For the evaluation of vertical spatial equity in the geographical organization of urban facilities, there is a requirement to examine whether and to...