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Local Initiatives for Sustainable Development Column
by Faisal Ibney Hai, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo This column focuses on the small scale initiatives taken locally within different communities for sustainable development. Local initiatives usually do not enjoy much coverage in international media; those rather remain in the pages of local newspapers and eventually pass into oblivion. Our aim is [...]
Continue reading...Solid Waste Management in a Developing Country: Towards a Sustainable Solution
Friday, April 22, 2005
by Faisal Ibney Hai, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Until recently, the environment was not an issue in a developing country like Bangladesh, and solid waste management was definitely not the prime concern of environmentalists and the government when the awakening to the issue finally did occur. It has only been [...]
Continue reading...Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water in Bangladesh
Thursday, November 25, 2004
by François Turk, Gabrielle Schwab, Philipe Reymond, Xavier Bengoa This is the greatest case of poisoning in the history of mankind: In Bangladesh, the health of 35 to 80 million people is endangered due to water contaminated by arsenic (Figure 1 [1]). The problem was first detected in the early 1980s in the Indian state [...]
Continue reading...Continued Debate on Flood Policy in Bangladesh: Toward a Sustainable Solution
Friday, November 19, 2004
by Md. Sirajul Islam Bangladesh attracts little attention from the international news media except for its occasional catastrophic flood incidents. This year’s flood was one such case, reported by news organizations all around the world. Being crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and having a flat deltaic or flood plain, Bangladesh has a long history of [...]
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