Individual, communal and institutional responses to climate change by low-income households in Khulna, Bangladesh

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-129

  Haque, Anika N ^a   Dodman, David ^b   Hossain, Md Mohataz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; climate change; poverty; resilience; urban

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOW INCOME POPULATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

BANGLADESH; KHULNA [BANGLADESH]; KHULNA [KHULNA (ADS)];

EID: 84899621554     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247813518681     Document Type: Article

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