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This digital document is a journal article from Applied Geography, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Coastal areas of Bangladesh frequently experience tropical cyclones and associated tidal bore. In order to prevent cyclonic or storm-surge flooding and to increase crop production by preventing intrusion of saline ocean water, many coastal embankment projects were initiated in the 1960s by the Bangladesh government. After construction of these embankments, particularly their reconstruction in 1991 has increased the frequency of flash floods in coastal areas. The objective of this study is to examine to what extent the reconstruction of embankment is responsible for the increased severity of flash flooding at the Chokoria thana of the Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh. Using hydrological data and perception of the respondents on the increased flooding through the rapid rural appraisal (RRA) method, it was found that severity of the flood increased after the reconstruction of embankments in 1991. Other causes of increased flooding is also explored. ... Read more

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This series is packed with information and statistics, including many useful website addresses. The books cover all the key aspects of the country, including physical geography, main towns and cities, resources and industry, employment, transport and communications, daily life, religion and government. ... Read more

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Written by an international expert in the field,
Geophysical Framework of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan focuses on the Indian subcontinent, encompassing detailed descriptions of the region's tectonic outline and geophysical parameters. It enables researchers and practitioners in the industry to visualize the extension of the structural and tectonic elements at depth, and the processes underlying the evolution of the Indian lithosphere and craton. The text integrates the emerging concepts and newly acquired data, keeping in view the framework of plate tectonics, seismicity, neotectonics, mid-continent rifting, and ridge formation, suturing together the disparate cratonic elements and covering a period of over three billion years. ... Read more

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There is no statistical evidence that the frequency of flooding in Bangladesh has increased during the 20th century. There is indication however, that the inter-annual variation of floods and the areal extent of big events have increased since 1950. Is it really true that deforestation and land use practices of the Himalayan farmers are to blame for the recurring and devastating monsoon floods in the plains of the Ganga and Brahmaputra? This book presents new evidence resulting from a research project on floods in Bangladesh in the context of highland-lowland linkages. ... Read more

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futile remedies?
The reader might despair of Bangladesh after reading this book. It describes the massive overcrowing of > 100 million people on a riverine delta. Subject to annual flooding, as has just happened last week. In this case, due to a cyclone.

The book describes how most of the land is at sea level. Actually quite fertile, due to the silt deposited by the rivers, that builds up the delta. Historically, this very fertility led to today's huge population. But the episodic flooding (quite apart from the cyclones) gives a concomitant death toll and massive property damage. The latter being inflicted on people with already very little.

Various remedies are proposed. The reader might ponder the efficacies of these. Well meaning, though maybe just palliatives. If much of the population could migrate to other countries, that would ease many of the problems. But India is the only obvious choice, and is unlikely to permit this. ... Read more

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This is part of a series for 8 to 13 year olds in which each book describes a particular place, job or way of life. The illustrations are closely integrated with the text. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 1993. The length of the article is 3483 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Temporal and spatial patterns of damage to rice crops in Bangladesh resulting from river flooding are analyzed countrywide for the period 1962 to 1988 and at the district level from 1967 to 1988. Floods annually damaged approximately 4 percent of total rice production, but districts varied markedly in flood-related crop losses. Absolute magnitude of these losses over time may not justify expensive and controversial flood-control initiatives currently being implemented in Bangladesh.

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Title: Flood damage to rice crop in Bangladesh.
Author: Bimal Kanti Paul
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1993
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v83Issue: n2Page: p150(10)

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Colour photographs, maps and diagrams illustrate another title from the DEVELOPING WORLDS series, written in association with Action Aid; an exploration of Bangladesh and the reasons for its current state of poverty, focusing on Bhola island in an assessment of possible improvements and its economic development. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Bangladesh," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Bangladesh in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Bangladesh when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Bangladesh, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more