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Names: Dewan, Camelia, author.
Title: Misreading the Bengal Delta : climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh / Camelia Dewan ; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan.
Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021. | Series: Culture, place, and nature | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2021012111 (print) | lccn 2021012112 (ebook) |isbn 9780295749600 (hardcover) | isbn 9780295749617 (paperback) |isbn 9780295749624 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Climatic changes—Social aspects—Bangladesh. |Climatic changes—Economic aspects—Bangladesh. | Economic development—Environmental aspects—Bangladesh. | Coastal settlements—Bangladesh. |Coastal ecology—Bengladesh. | Bangladesh—Environmental conditions.
Classification: lcc qc903.2.b3 d48 2021 (print) | lcc qc903.2.b3 (ebook) |ddc 338.95492—dc23
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