Bangladesh and Environment
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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Search for the latest environment-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Environmental Impact of Land Use in the Chalan Beel Area: A Study of Some selected Villages in Kalam union
- M.M. Rahman 2012
- Poverty with the rapid population growth and their consequent needs compel men to over-exploit natural resources like land. Given the nature of agricultural technologies and practices, land is loosing its potentialities gradually. It ...
- Disaster Management as an Opportunity for Sustainable Rural Development
- M.S. Rahman 2004
- As a part of policy matters of government of Bangladesh disaster management efforts have been integrated into the process of national development. Flood protection embankments are used as roads and in some cases as a portion of nation...
- Conversion of Agricultural Land to Non-agricultural Uses in Bangladesh: Extent and Determinants
- M.A. quasem / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- Bangladesh is a land scarce country where per capita cultivated land is only 12.5 decimals. It is claimed that every year about one per cent of farm land in the country is being converted to non-agricultural uses. The present study es...
- Village Common Forests in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: Balance between Conservation and Exploitation
- M A Baten / Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
- Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh are managing forests around their homesteads in a sustainable way despite exclusion of customary rights on government managed reserved forests,. Bangladesh, as ...
- Violation of Land Use Plan and Its Impact on Community Life in Dhaka City
- K Nahrin 2008
- Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, is experiencing one of the highest rate of urbanization in the world. Over the years, the city has had inconsistent transformation of land use and organic development; which in turn created crisi...
- A Guideline for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Business Practices in the Financial Sector
- A Raihan / Development Research Network, 2007
- Environmentally and socially responsible businesses are closely related to corporate governance which in turn concentrates in providing a balance between economic and social goals to promote and support the proficient use of resources...
- Resuscitating the Sundarbans: customary use of biodiversity & traditional culture practices in Bangladesh
- D.M.H. Kabir / Unnayan Onneshan, 2008
- The study is participatory work of different research wings, local communities of Sundarban. It explores the crisis already has created in mantaining biodiversity in sundarban due mismanagement and over exploitation of the resources t...
- Redevelopment Strategy for Old Dhaka: An Analytical Debate
- Q A Maowla 2008
- Due to the deplorable condition of Old Dhaka, experts and general people assert the need for action to improve its living environment. But there is an absence of clear policy or direction to be followed. The critical question of redev...
- Promotion of Improved Cookstove in Rural Bangladesh
- BRAC Education Programme, 2011
- This study aimed to explore the factors affecting the promotion of improved cookstove (ICS) to replace traditional stove and hence to combat indoor air pollution (IAP). The study was conducted in 58 randomly selected villages of Jamal...
- Effects of Riverbank Erosion on Livelihood
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2012
- Riverbank erosion is one of the most unpredictable and critical type of disasters that takes into account the quantity of rainfall, soil structure, river morphology, topography of river and adjacent areas, and floods. Such calamity to...
- 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
