Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: Insights from coastal Bangladesh

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 281-294

  Islam, Md Monirul ^a,b   Sallu, Susannah ^a   Hubacek, Klaus ^c   Paavola, Jouni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Climate change; Climate variability; Fisheries; Livelihoods; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893650401     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0487-6     Document Type: Article

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