Misreading the Bengal Delta : climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh

Misreading the Bengal Delta climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh

"Key global players increasingly politicize discussion of climatic change. This is especially evident in regard to Bangladesh, much of which is perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to flooding, and which has long been the recipient of various development schemes for "poverty reduct...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dewan, Camelia, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press 2021
[2021]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Social aspects > Bangladesh.
Climatic changes > Economic aspects > Bangladesh.
Economic development > Environmental aspects > Bangladesh.
Bangladesh > Environmental conditions.
climate change; development; Coastal Bangladesh
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009635439506719
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction : climate reductive translations In development
  • Simplifying embankments
  • Translating climate change
  • Assembling fish, shrimp, and suffering in a saltwater village
  • Entangling rice, soil, and strength in a freshwater village
  • Surviving inequality
  • Conclusion : misreading climate change.

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