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University Networking in Improving Academic Resilience to COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the conventional educational approaches in higher educational institutions. It has forced to transform the learning system from traditional classroom learning to a ...
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Landslide, Agricultural Vulnerability, and Community Initiatives: A Case Study in South-East Part of Bangladesh
The landslide has become a common hazard in Bangladesh. The south-east and north-east part has been identified as one of the significant hotspots facing frequent landslide disaster. The location, frequency, an...
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Smart Water Solutions to Address Salinity, Drinking Water and Health Issues in Coastal Bangladesh
World water resources are facing dramatic changes as a result of global climate change, high water demands, population growth, industrialization and urbanization, and safe drinking water is one of the most pr...
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Safe Drinking Water Solutions in Parts of West Bengal, India: Combating Health Issues Through Participatory Water Management
The world is facing a global water crisis with the capacity of the hydrological cycle to supply water challenged by excessive demand, pollution of water resources and poor water management. Many districts in W...
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Open AccessClimate Change, Water Scarcity, and Health Adaptation in Southwestern Coastal Bangladesh
Climate change may affect human health through multiple and interactive pathways that include safe water scarcity. However, impacts of climate change-induced water scarcity on health and well-being are complex...
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Resilience to Water-Related Disasters: Risks, Vulnerabilities and Co** Strategies in Dhaka
Climate change has become one of the major developmental concerns of countries in the Bay of Bengal region, which is already causing setbacks such as flooding, waterlogging, and drinking water problem. Around ...
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Land Use Change in Southwestern Coastal Bangladesh: Consequence to Food and Water Supply
The coastal area in Bangladesh constitutes about 32 % of the country. This one-third of the country’s land is recognized as a zone subject to intensive human use. Land use in the coastal Bangladesh is diverse,...
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Food Security, Climate Change Adaptation, and Disaster Risk
Climate change impacts and natural disasters are the leading cause of hunger and affect all dimensions of food security including access to food, availability and stability of supplies, and nutrition across th...
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People and Community Actions on Food Security
The global food crisis is exposing existing and potential vulnerabilities of households, governments and the international system to food and nutrition insecurity. Most of the rural poor are smallholder farmer...
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Future Approaches of Food Security, Sustainable Development, Environment and Resource Management and Risk Reduction
Globally, food security problem is identified that there is enough food in the world, but the distribution is deficient. Food security is not only about having enough production; it is also about having an equ...
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Introduction and Overview of Food Security and Risk Reduction Issues
A series of recent events have stimulated broader interest in food security and food systems. About 850 million people in the world are undernourished, particularly in the develo** countries. In spite of mak...
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Soil Health and Food Security: Perspective from Southwestern Coastal Region of Bangladesh
Bangladesh has a primarily agrarian economy. Agriculture is the single largest producing sector of the economy. Soil is the predominant aspect for a successful crop production; whereas, good soil health is a p...
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Open AccessCommunity Perception and Adaptation to Safe Drinking Water Scarcity: Salinity, Arsenic, and Drought Risks in Coastal Bangladesh
One of the most serious resource and health issues in coastal communities of Bangladesh is the scarcity of safe drinking water, triggered by the combined effects of salinity, arsenic, and drought. This article...
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Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh: Contemporary Alarm and Future Strategy
For thousands of years, groundwater has served as a unique and reliable source of potable water in developed as well as develo** countries. But, at the end of the twentieth century, groundwater contamination...
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Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Bangladesh
A number of disasters are very common in Bangladesh. Among them, flood, tropical cyclone and drought are the most catastrophic disaster, which has substantial effect on livelihood. In every disaster, people wi...
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Disaster Education in Bangladesh: Opportunities and Challenges
During the last couple of decades, there has been an increase in the frequency and severity of disasters in Bangladesh, particularly those of hydro meteorological origin such as flood, cyclone and drought. To ...
