Browsing by Subject "Bangladesh"
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(2019-07-17)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe decision to migrate is complex and is often influenced by a combination of economic, social, political, and environmental pressures. Seasonal, internal migration is a common strategy for livelihood diversification in ...
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(2022-08)This paper examines how to activate social learning networks and technology to improve maternal health outcomes in Hashimpur, Bangladesh. The project questions evaluated 1) what factors contribute to the use or avoidance ...
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(2022-05-04)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesEnvironmental change interacts with human mobility in complex ways that depend on interactions between impacts on individual households and on communities. These coupled individual-collective dynamics make agent-based ...
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(2016-07-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental ManagementFactors affecting water security in rural south-western Bangladesh were assessed using an interdisciplinary approach: evaluating national water security by analysis of water indices and parameters and by comparison to ...
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(2018-07-12)Department: Environmental EngineeringThis dissertation explores the freshwater resources in the coastal region of Bangladesh. Freshwater serves as a major link between Bangladesh's particularly complex and unstable coupled human and natural systems. The coastal ...
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(2013-12-16)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesClimate change and sea level rise will continue to stress the human and natural landscapes over the next century with low-lying deltaic regions characterized by extensive aquifer systems being highly vulnerable to these ...
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(2017-08-09)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesEarth and Environmental Sciences Perceptions of Water Quality in Southwestern Bangladesh Rachel Shumaker Thesis under the direction of Professor Jonathan M. Gilligan Increasing stress on Southwestern Bangladesh has ...
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(2014-07-25)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesDeltas are dynamic natural and socio-economic environments that are hypersensitive to the effects of urbanization, natural disasters and climate driven sea level change. Deltaic groundwater resources are often susceptible ...
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(2016-03-25)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThroughout the Holocene, a large sediment load coupled with river avulsions, tectonic activity and eustasy developed the complex stratigraphy of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta. Understanding this development is useful ...
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The Effect of Irrigation Source on Arsenic and Salt Concentrations in Soil in Southwest Bangladesh (2018-03-29)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesSoil (n=45) and water (n=111) samples were collected in SW Bangladesh in the wet (May) and dry (November) seasons in 2016 to investigate the effects of irrigation by tidal channel water and groundwater on concentrations ...
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(2019-11-14)Department: Environmental EngineeringWe quantify discharge exchange and tidal waveform propagation in the interconnected Shibsa-Pussur tidal channel network on the southwestern Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, with the goal of characterizing the natural ...
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(2021-06-08)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesLimited research has been completed thus far involving trace element cycling between environmental media in estuary environments, which is important to quantify to better understand potential impacts of pollution. In ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-28)The global geopolitical history of the late 20th century was defined by the Cold War between the United States and the USSR, which through alliances, involved many countries across the world. Large swaths of the world ...