Climate change impacts in agricultural communities in rural areas of coastal bangladesh: A tale of many stories

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 8438-8460

  Huq, Nazmul ^a   Hugé, Jean ^b   Boon, Emmanuel ^c   Gain, Animesh K ^d  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agriculture; Bangladesh; Climate change; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRANSECT; VULNERABILITY;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84941779839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7078437     Document Type: Article

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