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Char Dwellers’ Right to Development in Bangladesh
This chapter examines life in the charlandsCharlands of BangladeshBangladesh in the context of the 1986 Declaration on the Right to...
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Out Migration as a Survival Strategy for Char Dwellers
The paper investigates migration pattern of char dwellers, their employments and contributionContribution of remittancesRemittances in socioeconomic...
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Rethinking Char Development in Bangladesh
This chapter summarizes the key policy issues derived from the diverse discourses contained in the previous chapters of the book. Lessons learned...
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Discourses on Char Development in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in terms of climate changeClimate change challenges in the world. The accelerated frequency of...
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Char Landscape of the Brahmaputra Riverine Tract, Assam: Elements of Evolution and Cultural Ecology
The sand bars, locally known as chars and chaporis, constitute integral parts of the immediate floodplain of the Brahmaputra River in Assam. Most of...
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Living on the Edge Char Dwellers in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the chars within the river channels are an important part of its landscape. However, these land masses continue to remain isolated,...
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Crop Production Patterns and Marketing in Char Areas: Adapting to Hazards and Vulnerability
Agriculture is the means of livelihood for most of the people living in charsChar in Bangladesh. However, due to the dynamic hydro-morphology and...
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Flood Proofing to Reduce the Vulnerability of Char Communities: Experiences and Future Directions
Char dwellers live in a harsh environment dominated by the double hazards of floods and erosion, as well as high tides and cyclonesCyclones in the...
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Agriculture in Riverine Chars: Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Community-Based Adaptation
This study explores char dwellers’ vulnerabilitiesVulnerability and responses to climate change and other natural disasters and the existing...
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Background, Approach, and Issues
Chars in Bangladesh, emerging from sandy and alluvial deposits across the floodplains and the estuary, constitute an important part of the landscape...
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The Morphology of Riverine Chars
This chapter provides an overview of the char dynamicsChar dynamics of the Jamuna and Padma riversPadma River in BangladeshBangladesh, which are part...
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The Chars Livelihoods Programme: Experiences and Learnings
The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) was initiated in 2004 with the objective of providing support to the extreme poor families in the northwest...
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Future Speculations and Challenges
In reality, riverbank erosion is neither possible nor desirable to stop. Therefore, we have to go for a better understanding of the processes and...
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Dynamic Land and Adaptive People of Bengal Basin and Its Charland
This chapter presents an analysis of the dynamic geophysical character and human ecological system as found in the Bengal Basin. Characteristics of...
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The Charland Administration and Governance: Need for a Paradigm Shift
The charland in the riverine flood plain and the delta was historically viewed as isolated and lawless “frontiers,”Frontiers yet the land was...
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Formation and Dynamics of Coastal Chars in Bangladesh
The tideTide dominated Meghna estuaryMeghna estuary is characterized by a sequence of distributary channels and islands/charsChar. While there are...
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Dislocation and Involuntary Migration: Lessons from the Teesta River Bank Erosion in Bangladesh
Dislocation and involuntary migration is a recurrent issue in the floodplains of the Teesta river. The present research aims to identify the outcome...
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Shoreline dynamics in the reserved region of meghna estuary and its impact on lulc and socio-economic conditions: a case study from nijhum dwip, Bangladesh
The southern region of Bangladesh is more unstable than the other part of the country due to massive discharge of heavy sediment through the Meghna...
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Images of Delhi in Indo-Anglian and Hindi Literary Works
The resource material for this work has largely but not rigidly been drawn from the HindiHindi literature and Indo-AnglianIndo-Anglian literature....
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Women in Chars: Challenges and Social Development Opportunities
This paper reviews multiple issues of concern to women living in chars. The majority of chars women live with extreme poverty, social...