Overview
- Offers comprehensive information on geography, environmental sustainability and development in Bangladesh
- Addresses adverse situations in developing initiatives and offers potential solutions for environmental threats
- Presents developments in Bangladesh as an example of economic, environmental and social change in the Global South
Part of the book series: World Regional Geography Book Series (WRGBS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Geographic Transformations
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Economic Transformations
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Environmental Transformations
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Transformation Relating to People and Society
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Keywords
- Sustainable Development in Bangladesh
- Environmental Studies
- Natural Hazards in Bangladesh
- Environmental Vulnerability
- Disaster Risk-Reduction
- Climatic Change in South Asia
- change in the Global South
- Geography of Bangladesh
- Transformation in Bangladesh
- Economic Geography of Bangladesh
- Population Dynamics in Bangladesh
About this book
This book focuses on the transformation of Bangladesh in respect to its people, geography, economy and environment. The authors discuss current problems such as vulnerability caused by environmental degradation in Bangladesh but also opportunities of this rapidly changing country. The book explains how the country is rapidly transforming from a rural subsistence agrarian based economic system to a new economic partner contributing to global processes.
Bangladesh is presented as an example for the changes in the Global South, where a mismatch is often observed in linking resources and activities with environmental sustainability, possibly due to insufficient base-line knowledge. As faster growth is marginalizing resources to increase the GDP, the sustainability of resource exploitation is being questioned. The authors describe the vulnerable situation caused by possible sea-level rise, soil degradation, biodiversity loss, climate extremities, urbanization, and population displacement.
This volume offers comprehensive knowledge about the geography and environment of Bangladesh and aims to help readers further investigate the issues and work on solutions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
1. Dr. Raquib Ahmed worked in various capacities at universities in Bangladesh, Germany, SriLanka and in Pakistan. His research interest is on remote sensing, coastal environment and landuse change, wrote book on aerial photo interpretation and phgotogrammetry, contributed book chapters and published papers in similar areas. Now he is Vice Chancellor at the Fareast International University, Dhaka.
2. Abdullah Al-Maruf is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. In 2017 he completed his PhD at the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2019 he worked as a visiting researcher at Ohio State University, USA. In 2023 he received Fullbright research fellowship. His research interests span climate change, resilience and ecosystem services.
3. J. Craig Jenkins is Academy Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University.His research deals with sustainable development, protest and conflict, and methods of event data and survey analysis. His most recent publication are a double issue of The American Behavioral Scientist and co-editing Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transforming Bangladesh
Book Subtitle: Geography, People, Economy and Environment
Editors: Raquib Ahmed, Abdullah Al-Maruf, J. Craig Jenkins
Series Title: World Regional Geography Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45093-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45092-1Published: 15 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45095-2Due: 16 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45093-8Published: 14 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2363-9083
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9091
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 176
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Asian Economics, Economic Geography, History of South Asia