Exclusion and Counter-exclusion: The Struggle over Shrimp Farming in a Coastal Village in Bangladesh

Development and Change

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 692-720

  Afroz, Sharmin ^a   Cramb, Rob ^a   Grünbühel, Clemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL FISHERY; LAND USE CHANGE; LIVELIHOOD; MOBILIZATION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL SOCIETY; SHRIMP FISHERY; SMALLHOLDER; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL INCLUSION; VILLAGE;

BANGLADESH; KHULNA [BANGLADESH];

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 85020131655     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12310     Document Type: Article

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