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040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aDewan, Camelia, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMisreading the Bengal Delta : _bClimate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal​ Bangladesh / _cCamelia Dewan ; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan.
264		1	_aSeattle : _bUniversity of Washington Press, _c2021.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_a1 online resource (254 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCulture, place, and nature
505	0		_aPreface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction : climate reductive translations In development -- Simplifying embankments -- Translating climate change -- Assembling fish, shrimp, and suffering in a saltwater village -- Entangling rice, soil, and strength in a freshwater village -- Surviving inequality -- Conclusion : misreading climate change.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"Key global players increasingly politicize discussion of climatic change. This is especially evident in regard to Bangladesh, much of which is perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to flooding, and which has long been the recipient of various development schemes for "poverty reduction" or "progress" to justify interventions in its environment and society. Some of these projects have resulted in severe, often unintended, environmental effects, such as silting of waterbodies that are surrounded by embankments; biodiversity loss and weakening of the sea walls (which protect against floods) resulting from tiger-prawn monoculture; and loss of soil fertility in intensive agriculture. Camelia Dewan utilizes ethnography and environmental history to highlight flawed assumptions of international development projects in Bangladesh, which often misread the coastal landscape by attributing causality solely to climate change. Examination of multiple and often conflicting perspectives-from poor rural coastal populations, middle-class elites, political actors, and NGO staff-shows how, since the colonial era, Bangladesh has endured intrusions, and how its current environmental crisis goes beyond global warming. This case study informs broader issues worldwide by documenting how the idea of climate change shapes development projects in the Global South, and the extent to which these endeavors correspond with the problems and concerns of populations they are intended to help. This provocative study will be welcomed by readers in the fields of environmental anthropology, human geography, and development studies"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aEconomic development _xEnvironmental aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00901808
650		7	_aEcology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00901476
650		7	_aCoastal settlements. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01741432
650		7	_aCoastal ecology. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00865723
650		7	_aClimatic changes _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00864268
650		7	_aClimatic changes _xEconomic aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00864236
650		0	_aCoastal ecology _zBengladesh.
650		0	_aCoastal settlements _zBangladesh.
650		0	_aEconomic development _xEnvironmental aspects _zBangladesh.
650		0	_aClimatic changes _xEconomic aspects _zBangladesh.
650		0	_aClimatic changes _xSocial aspects _zBangladesh.
651		7	_aBangladesh. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01213724
651		0	_aBangladesh _xEnvironmental conditions.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/97671/
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