Participatory integrated assessment of flood protection measures for climate adaptation in Dhaka

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 197-213

  Haque, Anika Nasra ^a   Grafakos, Stelios ^b   Huijsman, Marijk ^b  

^a AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BANGLADESH   (Bangladesh)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment; climate adaptation; Dhaka; flood protection; multi criteria analysis; options prioritization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; FLOODING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PRIORITIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBANIZATION;

BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH]; DHAKA [DHAKA (ADS)];

EID: 84860516157     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247811433538     Document Type: Article

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