From fish and forest to salt and shrimp: the changing nature of coastal development policy and its impact on coastal resources and communities in Southeast Bangladesh

From fish and forest to salt and shrimp: the changing nature of coastal development policy and its impact on coastal resources and communities in Southeast Bangladesh

Coastal Bangladesh is both rich in aquatic and terrestrial resources and subject to natural and humanmade risks and vulnerabilities of flood, cyclone, political change, competition for resources, deforestation, piracy and the like. Since the 1950s, two of the most important transformations in land u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pokrant, Bob, Reeves, P.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: University of Amsterdam Press 2005
Subjects:
coastal development
shrimp industry
salt production
coastal communities
Bangladesh
Online Access:http://www.marecentre.nl.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7484

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