Climate change and its risk reduction by mangrove ecosystem of Bangladesh


Autoria(s): Barua, Prabal; Chowdhury, Shahnawaz; Sarker, Subrata
Data(s)

2010

Resumo

Climate change is amongst the most dreaded problems of the new millennium. Bangladesh is a coastal country bounded by Bay of Bengal on its southern part and here natural disasters are an ongoing part of human life. This paper discusses about the possible impact of climate change through tropical cyclones, storm surges, coastal erosion and sea level rise in the coastal community of Bangladesh and how they cope with these extreme events by the help of mangrove ecosystem. Both qualitative and quantitative discussions are made by collected data from different research work those are conducted in Bangladesh. Mangrove ecosystem provides both goods and services for coastal community, helps to improve livelihood options and protect them from natural disaster by providing variety of environmental support

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Identificador

http://aquaticcommons.org/4616/1/Climate_Change_and_its_risk_reduction_by_Mangrove_Ecosystem_of_Bangladesh.pdf

Barua, Prabal and Chowdhury, Shahnawaz and Sarker, Subrata (2010) Climate change and its risk reduction by mangrove ecosystem of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Research Publication Journal, 4(3), 3. pp. 208-225.

Idioma(s)

en

Relação

http://aquaticcommons.org/4616/

http://www.bdresearchpublications.com/admin/journal/upload/09168/09168.pdf

Palavras-Chave #Atmospheric Sciences #Environment
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Article

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