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  Livelihoods in rural Bangladesh

  Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, 2006

  For many of the poorest residents of Subarnabad, a village in rural Bangladesh, lackof money to meet basic needs is related to the environmental changes that have been occurring during the last 25 to 30 years. The authors describe the local vulnerabilities to environmental change such as saltwater intrusion and shrimp farm introduction in rural Bangladesh.
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  Equity & Justice Working Group (EJWG)

  Equity and Justice Working Group (EJWG) is an alliance of NGO and CSO activists in Bangladesh.
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  Debating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: farmers’ innovations as lessons for policy

  International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2006

  Hundreds of millions of people in Asia are dependent on shifting cultivation, yet the practice has tended to be seen in a negative light and discouraged by policy makers. This document challenges prevailing assumptions, arguing that shifting cultivation – if properly practised – is actually a ‘good practice’ system for productively using hil
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  Building community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability

  South South North, 2006

  The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are: 
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  Community based adaptation to climate change bulletin

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007

  The bulletin describes the second community based adaptation (CBA) workshop held in Dhaka in February 2007. The workshop aimed to share the latest developments in community-based adaptation programmes, priorities and solutions with a view to integrating the lessons into national and international development programmes.
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  Participatory Vulnerability Analysis: a step–by–step guide for field staff

  ActionAid International, 2004

  This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disaster. This guide is specifically developed consistent with the PVA approach to: 
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  Urban and peri-urban aquaculture development in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India

  Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, 2006

  This paper follows the 2005 Dhaka workshop on "Peri-urban aquatic production and improvement of the livelihoods of the urban poor in south east Asia".
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  Seeing the light: adapting to climate change with decentralized renewable energy in developing countries

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This book argues that well-designed decentralised renewable energy projects are both a mitigating and adaptive response to climate change.
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  Bangladesh: study of non-state providers of basic services

  International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2006

  This report, from a series of country studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development, examines non-state providers (NSPs) of health, education, water and sanitation in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has an unusually large non-government organisation (NGO) sector with an estimated 22,000 organisations.
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  Nanotechnology, water and development

  Meridian Institute, 2006

  This paper draws together a range of issues that need to be considered and addressed in applying technology, particularly nanotechnology, for improving basic sanitation and access to clean water.

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