Necessity of acceptance? Searching for a sustainable community-based disaster mitigation approach - The example of a coastal city in Bangladesh

Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2011 - Proceedings of the 2011 Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 753-766

  Mallick, Bishawjit ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Coastal Research Foundation ^*  (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Coastal environment; Natural disasters; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL CITIES; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; DISASTER MITIGATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL HAZARD; PERCEPTION PATTERNS; PROBLEM AREAS; SEA PORTS;

COASTAL ZONES; DISASTERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 80053153245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41185(417)65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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