Living with the risks of cyclone disasters in the South-Western Coastal Region of Bangladesh

Environments - MDPI

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-17

  Mallick, Bishawjit ^a,b,c   Ahmed, Bayes ^d,e   Vogt, Joachim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Climate change; Community vulnerability; Cyclone; Cyclone Aila; Cyclone Sidr; Disaster; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031928752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/environments4010013     Document Type: Article

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