Linking Coastal Disasters and Migration: A Case Study of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh

Professional Geographer

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 218-228

  Rahman, Munshi Khaledur ^a   Paul, Bimal Kanti ^b   Curtis, Andrew ^a   Schmidlin, Thomas W ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; coastal erosion; environmental change; flood; Kutubdia Island; migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926252889     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2014.922020     Document Type: Article

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