AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 16 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW190007
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Sustainable Livelihood of Vulnerable Communities in Southern Coast of Bangladesh through the Utilization of Mangroves

Prabal Barua1* Syed Hafizur Rahman1
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1 Department of Environmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
AJWEP 2019, 16(1), 59–67; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW190007
Submitted: 4 January 2017 | Revised: 27 November 2018 | Accepted: 27 November 2018 | Published: 10 January 2019
© 2019 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Keywords
Mangrove forests
coastal communities
livelihood
river erosion
human encroachment
aquaculture
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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