Human vulnerability, dislocation and resettlement: Adaptation processes of river-bank erosion-induced displacees in Bangladesh

Disasters

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-62

  Hutton, David ^a   Haque, C Emdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Economic and social adaptation; Involuntary displacement; River bank erosion

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FORCED MIGRATION; NATURAL HAZARD; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; VULNERABILITY;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1842429813     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2004.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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