Climate Change and its Impacts on the Livelihoods of the Vulnerable People in the Southwestern Coastal Zone in Bangladesh

Climate Change Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 237-259

  Afjal Hossain, Md ^a   Imran Reza, Md ^a   Rahman, Sania ^a   Kayes, Imrul ^a  

^a NONE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Climate change; Livelihood; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85071418430     PISSN: 16102002     EISSN: 16102010     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22266-5_15     Document Type: Chapter

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