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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Climate change in Bangladesh

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    A toolkit for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    This comprehensive toolkit, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Asia Pacific Secretariat, seeks to provide strategies for integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) into ecosystem management of coastal and marine areas in south Asia.
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    Transboundary landscape management framework for ecological and socioeconomic resilience

    2012
    Current land management approaches focus on achieving ecological resilience for natural resources and biological diversity, and socioeconomic resilience for the people who depend on the land for their livelihoods and wellbeing.
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    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 national household survey, this study quantifies the carbon and distributional benefits of solar home system programs in Bangladesh.
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    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 Jamalpur sadar and Hatia upazilas (29 villages in each) in 2008. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used.
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    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 took tolls less in lives but more in livelihood as agricultural land and homesteads along with other livelihood options that are evacuated.
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    Riverbank erosion displacees in Bangladesh: need for institutional response and policy intervention

    2011
    Environmental refugees are one of the most burning issues at this time throughout the world. Bangladesh, a riverine country, is suffering from acquit riverbank erosion which compels millions of her population to be displaced from their place of origin. As such, 283 locations, 85 towns and growth centers, along with 2400 kilometers of riverbank line in Bangladesh are vulnerable to erosion.
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    Climate Change and Flow of Environmental Displacement in Bangladesh

    Unnayan Onneshan, 2009
    This study depicts environmental displacement with the premise of increased frequency of natural disasters and the adverse impacts of climate change. Bangladesh is already experiencing recurrent floods, severe cyclones, water logging, salinity intrusions, droughts and river bank erosion which induce mass population displacement.
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    Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011
    The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and droughts, unpredictable changes in the timing of water flows, hydropower rivalries and persistently unsafe drinking water.
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    Demographics and climate change: future trends and their policy implications for migration

    Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2008
    This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for international development and evidence gaps that could be plugged with appropriate new research.
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    Coping with riverbank erosion induced displacement

    Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
    Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way that other natural disasters do and as a result, a number of coping mechanisms are employed by those affected, with the burden of displacement largely falling on women.

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