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The unequal distribution of water risks and adaptation benefits in coastal Bangladesh

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Increasing flood risk, salinization and waterlogging threaten the lives and livelihoods of more than 35 million people in Bangladesh’s coastal zone. While planning models have long been used to inform investments in water infrastructure, they frequently overlook interacting risks, impacts on the poor and local context. We address this gap by developing and applying a stochastic-optimization model to simulate the impact of flood embankment investments on the distribution of agricultural income...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1038/s41893-021-00846-9

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University of Oxford
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Springer Nature
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Volume:
5
Issue:
4
Pages:
294-302
Publication date:
2022-02-24
Acceptance date:
2021-12-20
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2398-9629
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2398-9629
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English
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1241947
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2024-07-08

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