Is shrimp farming a successful adaptation to salinity intrusion? A geospatial associative analysis of poverty in the populous Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta of Bangladesh

Sustainability Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 423-439

  Amoako Johnson, Fiifi ^a   Hutton, Craig W ^a   Hornby, Duncan ^a   Lázár, Attila N ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Anirban ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna delta; Poverty; Salinization; Shrimp farming; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961792820     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0356-6     Document Type: Article

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