Shitangsu Kumar Paul, Jayant K. Routray
Shitangsu Kumar Paul, Jayant K. Routray
This paper explores peoples' indigenous survival strategies and assesses variations in people's ability to cope with floods in two flood-prone villages in Bangladesh. It reveals that people continuously battle against flood vulnerability in accordance with their level of exposure and abilities, with...
AKM Ahsan Ullah, Jayant K. Routray
Purpose This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in Bangladesh with emphasis on the impacts of two NGO programmes in two villages of Barisal district. Design/methodology/approach This research has employed both qualitative and quantitative...
Mustafa Saroar, Jayant K. Routray
Shitangsu Kumar Paul, Jayant K. Routray
List of Contributors vii About the Editors xi 1 Communicating Climate Change Adaptation: From Strategy Development to Implementation 1 Philipp Schmidt-Thome, Johannes Klein, Anika Nockert, Larissa Donges, and Inga Haller 2 Participatory Climate Change Adaptation in Kalundborg, Denmark 11 B. Bedsted ...
Shitangsu Kumar Paul, Bimal Kanti Paul, Jayant K. Routray
Mustafa Saroar, Jayant K. Routray
This paper is aimed to identify the factors that influence peoples' preference for adaptation against the impacts of sea level rise (SLR). A total of 285 respondents from three coastal villages in Bangladesh are randomly interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. First, employing the princip...
Mustafa Saroar, Jayant K. Routray, Walter Leal Filho
Mustafa Saroar, Jayant K. Routray
Purpose The paper aims to identify and assess quantitatively the influences of a few dimensions of climate awareness on people's preference for adaptation against sea level rise (SLR). Design/methodology/approach From the literature survey “familiarity with”, “perception about” and “intuitive knowle...
Sanzidur Rahman, Jayant K. Routray
There is a dearth of information on the employment effects of modern agricultural tech nology on rural women in Bangladesh. The present study1 looks at women's participation in crop production activities, examines their influence in the diffusion of modern technol ogy and their participation in the ...
P. K. Viswanathan, Gopal B. Thapa, Jayant K. Routray, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad
Green revolution technologies and a vigorous smallholder sector have seen Asian agriculture make giant strides in the last five decades. But agricultural transition has not been uniform across Asia and the future of smallholder agriculture faces several challenges arising from a range of socio-econo...
Mustafa Saroar, Jayant K. Routray
Bangladesh is one of the sea-level lying countries that are extremely susceptible to climate change-induced sea level rise (SLR). Although the exact effects of SLR are yet to be understood, numerous research projects have come up with various estimates about SLR refugees from coastal Bangladesh. On ...
Sanzidur Rahman, Jayant K. Routray
There is a dearth of information on the employment effects of modern agricultural technology on rural women in Bangladesh. The present study1 looks at women’s participation in crop production activities, examines their influence in the diffusion of modern technology and their participation in the hi...
Mustafa Saroar, Jayant K. Routray