Community-based climate change adaptation strategies for integrated prawn-fish-rice farming in Bangladesh to promote social-ecological resilience

Reviews in Aquaculture

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-35

  Ahmed, Nesar ^a,b   Bunting, Stuart W ^c   Rahman, Sanzidur ^d   Garforth, Christopher J ^e  

^a BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b SA WATER   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Climate change adaptation; Ecosystem based management; Prawn fish rice; Resilience

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84897657072     PISSN: 17535123     EISSN: 17535131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/raq.12022     Document Type: Review

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