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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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    Agriculture biodiversity and food security: two sides of a coin

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
    This research paper explains the relationship between food production and agricultural biodiversity, and analyses the impact of indiscriminate loss of agricultural biodiversity on food security.
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    Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    Development Fund, Norway, 2011
    The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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    Informal sector e-waste recycling practices in Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
    This study aims at examining the current practice of recycling e-waste in the informal sectors of Bangladesh and identifying the problems towards development of a system of hazard-free e-waste recycling in the country.
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    Measuring the willingness to pay for hazard-free e-waste management in Dhaka city, Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
    Electronic waste is becoming a serious threat for our surrounding environment. Integrated initiatives are needed to fight this growing concern in Bangladesh. Within this background, this paper is the second in a 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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    Industrial pollution and urban environment:a case study of Narayangonj Pourashava

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
    There has been a remarkable and refreshing interest in the urban environment over the past few years. Advanced nations are economically developed and no doubt developing countries are more concerned about economic development. One of the important sectors of economic development in developing world is manufacturing industries. Developing countries have industries:

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