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Ecotourism Under Multiple-Use Management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh: Issues and Options

In: Development, Governance and the Environment in South Asia

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  • M. Akhter Hamid
  • Bruce R. Frank

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The Sundarbans meaning ‘beautiful forest’ is situated in the southwest deltaic coastlands of Bangladesh and the southeastern part of West Bengal, India facing the Bay of Bengal. It is the largest single compact mangrove forest in the world covering an area of one million hectares. Approximately 62 per cent of the Sundarbans forest area (577 000 hectares) belongs to Bangladesh. About 67 per cent of Bangladesh Sundarbans area is land and the rest is occupied by open waters (Hussain and Karim 1994).

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  • M. Akhter Hamid & Bruce R. Frank, 1999. "Ecotourism Under Multiple-Use Management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh: Issues and Options," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Mohammad Alauddin & Samiul Hasan (ed.), Development, Governance and the Environment in South Asia, chapter 16, pages 279-287, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-27631-8_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27631-8_16
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