Protifolon Issue 3. Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

This issue focuses on how local communities in 6 countries in south-east Asia are managing risk

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2010
Country:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Climate and Environment and Humanitarian Disasters and Emergencies
Authors:
Atiq Rahman, A., Rajabali, F., Alam, M., Md. Masum Billah and Shah Md. Ashraful Amin

Abstract

This issue focuses on how local communities in 6 countries in south-east Asia are managing risk; how they are coping with and preparing for possible disaster in their villages; how people living on the flood plains of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river in Bangladesh are coping with annual flooding; and how rice farmers in Hambantota district, Sri Lanka are dealing with increasing soil salinity.

Citation

Atiq Rahman, A.; Rajabali, F.; Alam, M.; Md. Masum Billah; Shah Md. Ashraful Amin. Protifolon Issue 3. Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia. D.Net, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2010) 8 pp.

Protifolon Issue 3. Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia

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