Farming adaptation to environmental change in coastal Bangladesh: shrimp culture versus crop diversification

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1195-1216

  Kabir, Md Jahangir ^a,b   Cramb, Rob ^a   Alauddin, Mohammad ^a   Roth, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BANGLADESH RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bangladesh)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal zone; Farm budgeting; Rice; Risk analysis; Salinity; Shrimp; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; COASTAL ZONE; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVATION; FARMING SYSTEM; HARVESTING; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALINITY; SHRIMP CULTURE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

BANGLADESH; KHULNA [BANGLADESH];

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84939216471     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: 15732975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-015-9697-z     Document Type: Article

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