Major climate-change issues covered by the daily newspapers of Bangladesh

Environmentalist

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-73

  Miah, Md Danesh ^a,b   Kabir, Md Humayain ^a   Koike, Masao ^b   Akther, Shalina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Forestry; Global warming; Natural disaster

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORESTRY PRACTICE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDIA INDUSTRY; MEDIA ROLE; MITIGATION; NATURAL DISASTER; RIVER SYSTEM; TOURISM; WATER STRESS; WETLAND;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 79953038797     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10669-010-9305-6     Document Type: Article

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