Md Zahangir Hossain, Md Mezbaul Bahar, Binoy Sarkar, Scott W. Donne et al.
K. R. Islam, Ray R. Weil
Mohammad Abdul Kader, Masateru Senge, M. A. Mojid, Kei Ito
Dennis Egger, Edward Miguel, Shana S. Warren, Ashish Shenoy et al.
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and sub...
Charlotte Benson, Edward Clay
The study consists of a state-of-the art review and three country case studies: on Dominica, a small island economy (Benson and Clay 2001); on disasters and public finances in Bangladesh (Benson and Clay 2002a); and on climatic variability in southern Africa, with a country study of Malawi (Clay and...
Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita, Hirosuke Oku, Kamrun Nahar et al.
Siddhartha Shankar Bhattacharyya, Gerard H. Ros, Karolina Furtak, Hafiz M.N. Iqbal et al.
Soil carbon sequestration (SCS) refers to the uptake of carbon (C) containing substances from the atmosphere and its storage in soil C pools. Soil microbial community (SMC) play a major role in C cycling and their activity has been considered as the main driver of differences in the potential to sto...
Ann Varley
The Exceptional and the Everyday - Vulnerability Analysis in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction Vulnerability Analysis and the Explanation of Natural Disasters Peru's 500-Year Earthquake - Vulnerability in Historical Context Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters in Central Amer...
M. Hossain Ali, M.R. Hoque, Ali Hassan, Abul Khair
Mead Cain
Relative to other approaches and emphases -- the value of childrens labor for example -- the potential importance of environmentally and socially determined risk as a source of derived demand for children in poor agrarian settings has been largely overlooked. Using frequency of distress sale of land...
Sanzidur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman
Md Rayhan Shaheb, Ramarao Venkatesh, S. A. Shearer
Abstract Purpose Sustainable crop production could contribute to feed and fuel for the ever-increasing global population. The use of heavy agricultural machinery has improved the efficiency of farming operations and increased global food production since the 1950s. But their negative impact on soil ...
Lisa C. Smith, Timothy R. Frankenberger
S. Amer Ahmed, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Thomas W. Hertel
Extreme climate events could influence poverty by affecting agricultural productivity and raising prices of staple foods that are important to poor households in developing countries. With the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events predicted to change in the future, informed policy design...
Terry Cannon
Bangladesh has recently experienced a number of high-profile disasters, including devastating cyclones and annual floods. Poverty is both a cause of vulnerability, and a consequence of hazard impacts. Evidence that the impacts of disasters are worse for women is inconclusive or variable. However, si...