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  Measuring the willingness to pay for hazard-free e-waste management in Dhaka city, Bangladesh

  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 calculating the willingness to pay for hazard-free e-waste management system in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh.
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  Restoring balance: Bangladesh's rural energy realities

  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 soil salinity. Such an unfavorable agricultural landscape is pushing many of the rural poor to the brink.
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  Environmental Impact of Land Use in the Chalan Beel Area: A Study of Some selected Villages in Kalam union

  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.
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  Disaster Management as an Opportunity for Sustainable Rural Development

  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 national road network system. Cyclone centres are used for multipurpose activities of community and rural development.
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  Conversion of Agricultural Land to Non-agricultural Uses in Bangladesh: Extent and Determinants

  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 estimates the rate of land conversion and consequent loss of agricultural production of the country besides determining the factors affecting such conversion.
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  Village Common Forests in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: Balance between Conservation and Exploitation

  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,.
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  Violation of Land Use Plan and Its Impact on Community Life in Dhaka City

  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 crisis in residential areas or neighborhoods and affected the city life adversely.
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  A Guideline for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Business Practices in the Financial Sector

  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.
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  Resuscitating the Sundarbans: customary use of biodiversity & traditional culture practices in Bangladesh

  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 there. If such kind of measures continues it will break up the ecological balance and call on unfortubnate natural disastrous , already bangladesh is facing.
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  Redevelopment Strategy for Old Dhaka: An Analytical Debate

  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 redevelopment as to ‘how’ ‘where’ and ‘to what purpose’ remains unresolved.

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