Md Aslam Mia, Shamima Nasrin, Miao Zhang, Rajah Rasiah
Parvin Sultana, Paul Thompson
Abstract Floodplain wetlands are the major common pool natural resources in Bangladesh. Men do most of the fishing, but women collect aquatic plants and snails. A women‐only, a men‐only, and a mixed community based organisation (CBO) are compared, each of which manages a seasonal wetland. The CBOs i...
Martijn F. van Staveren, Jeroen Warner, M. Shah Alam Khan
The southwest coastal delta of Bangladesh is not only geographically home to a dynamic interplay between land and water, and between fresh surface water and saline tides, but also to contentious debates on flood management policy. It has been argued that dealing with delta floods in this region boil...
Kishor Uprety, Salman M.A. Salman
Abstract Historically, the development of cooperation among Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan with respect to the Indus and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins, South Asia's major transboundary rivers, has been a cause of tension, apprehension and ongoing disputes. This paper draws attent...
Md. Atikul Islam, Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Md Rezaul Karim, Masahiko Sekine
In the coastal areas of Bangladesh, scarcity of drinking water is acute as freshwater aquifers are not available at suitable depths and surface water is highly saline. Households are mainly dependent on rainwater harvesting, pond sand filters and pond water for drinking purposes. Thus, individuals i...
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Ira Martina Drupady
Sonia Ferdous Hoque, Robert Hope, Sharif Tanjim Arif, Tanjila Akhter et al.
Groundwater resources in deltaic regions are vulnerable to contamination by saline seawater, posing significant crisis for drinking water. Current policy and practice of building water supply infrastructure, without adequate hydrogeological analysis and institutional coordination are failing to prov...
Vishal Narain, M. Shah Alam Khan, Rajesh Sada, Sreoshi Singh et al.
This paper examines the implications of urbanization for water security and human health and well-being in four peri-urban South Asian locations, namely Khulna in Bangladesh, Kathmandu in Nepal, and Gurgaon and Hyderabad in India. It describes the implications of the urbanization process for water a...
Lutfun Nahar Lata, Peter Walters, Sonia Roitman
Studies of informal street vending in the Global South often investigate grassroots resistance to formal and informal power as a collective and organised phenomenon. In our case study in the megacity of Dhaka, we show collective resistance is not possible due to an overwhelming threat from a coerciv...
Khondaker Azharul Haq
Abstract Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has become a megacity with a population of nearly 12.5 million, which is increasing at an annual rate of over 5%. Industrial, domestic and commercial wastes are polluting surface water, and groundwater in certain areas of the city also shows signs of b...
Johannes Petry
Scholars have focused on how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) facilitates Chinese economic statecraft and its likely impact on the global order. A common thread thereby is how connectivity through China’s construction of physical infrastructures (e.g. ports, roads, railways) represents a source of...
Camelia Dewan
This article examines whether the use of climate change as a ‘spice’ in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank’s latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh aims to create higher and wider embankments against rising sea levels. This ...
Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin, Victor S. Muhandiki, Akira Sakai, Abdullah Al Mamun et al.
Myra J. Hird
Waste is a major global environmental issue that assembles socio-cultural and bio-geological processes in complex indeterminate relationships. Drawing on three case studies, this article explores the shifting environmental politics concerned with waste’s material, economic, political, and cultural ‘...
Camelia Dewan, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Aditi Mukherji
Community-based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has been promoted as part of the development discourse on sustainable natural resources management since the mid-1980s. It has influenced recent water policy in Bangladesh through the Guidelines for Participatory Water Management (GPWM) where comm...