Bangladesh and Environment
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Status of Noise Pollution in Mixed Areas of Dhaka City: a GIS Approach
- M.A. Haq 2012
- Noise pollution is one of the most harmful pollution. Uncontrolled noise of Dhaka city has made a serious and vulnerable situation for the dwellers. Mixed areas are used in multidimensional ways so the degree and intensity of noise po...
- Water Supply of Dhaka City: Murky Future The Issue of Access and Inequality
- A.F.M.A. Uddin / Unnayan Onneshan, 2011
- To address the existing problems of water demand and supply, and to draw future scenarios, the current study has employed both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. Particular attention has been given to elucidate access a...
- Safe drinking water: who is willing to pay the price?
- C. Chapoy (ed); C. Null / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
- This briefing, the second issue of the Evidence Matters series, distills policy relevant evidence from a recent 3ie systematic review ‘Willingness to pay for cleaner water in less developed countries". The review summarises rese...
- Status of Arsenic Test and Exposure to Arsenic-contaminated Tubewell Water: A Population-based Study in Southern Bangladesh
- 2012
- This study explores the status of arsenic test of tubewell and exposures to arsenic-contaminated tubewell water in the arsenic prone southern Bangladesh. Through a survey of 6,593 households, a total of 3,812 tubewells were sampled at...
- Apartment Housing in High Class Residential Areas of Dhaka City: A Case Study of Dhanmondi, Gulshan and Baridhara
- M.A. Quasem 2004
- Cities are dynamic in nature. They develop as a result of interaction between different social, political, economical and technological forces. This paper is about multi-storey apartment buildings in high-class residential areas of Dh...
- Bangladesh: country environmental analysis
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2012
- Bangladesh’s steady economic growth has created many environmental challenges, particularly in urban and industrialized areas. The Country Environmental Analysis for Bangladesh underpins complex linkages between poverty, growth a...
- Quantifying Carbon and distributional benefits of solar home system programs in Bangladesh
- World Bank, 2011
- Scaling-up adoption of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems, to expand electricity access in developing countries can accelerate the transition to low-carbon economic development. Using a purposely collected nationa...
- Country case studies on ICT and environmental policies
- Association for Progressive Communications, 2011
- The five research projects discussed here are part of a APC programme area in the field of ICTs and environmental sustainability. They accompany an inventory of sustainable ICT tools and practices and a survey of organisational-level ...
- Measuring the willingness to pay for hazard-free e-waste management in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
- S U Ahmed / Development Research Network, 2011
- Electronic waste is becoming a serious threat for our surrounding environment. We need integrated initiatives to fight this growing concern in Bangladesh. On this background, this paper is the second in the series, aimed at calculatin...
- Restoring balance: Bangladesh's rural energy realities
- M. Asaduzzaman / World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's 140 million people reside in rural area.Low-lying areas are vulnerable to severe flooding, while other regions are prone to drought, erosion, and so...
- Equity & Justice Working Group (EJWG)
- Alliance of NGO and CSO activists in Bangladesh
- Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh (IWFM)
- Research, teaching and training organization focussing on water and flood management in Bangladesh
