and preparedness of droughts. This article presents a method for spatial assessment of drought risk in Bangladesh. A … result shows that droughts pose highest risk to the northern and northwestern districts of Bangladesh. Copyright Springer …Though drought is a recurrent phenomenon in Bangladesh, very little attention has been so far paid to the mitigation …

assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 … explained qualitatively by a model in which migration is risky, mitigating risk requires individual-specific learning, and some …

,000 residents in six different districts in Bangladesh facing various environmental risk exposure levels about their willingness to … participate in a catastrophe insurance programme. Combining factors put forward in risk theory and economics, we estimate a model … depending on both exogenous and endogenous risk exposure levels. As predicted by micro-economic theory, ability to pay, measured …

The present article explores the dynamics of disaster-induced risk resulted from tropical Cyclone Aila that struck … destroying 77,000 acres of farmland. This study assesses disaster risk by using basic pseudo-equation expressed as Risk … disaster risk. Following stratified purposive sampling techniques, a total of fourteen focus group discussions were conducted …

Bangladesh and India are among the world’s most populous but also most vulnerable countries to environmental risks. In … sensitive communities in Satkhira, Bangladesh and in Odisha, India; and, what are the responses of these communities to the … livelihood risks? The communities studied in Bangladesh depend mainly on the shrimp and fish resources of the Sundarbans mangrove …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …Risiko spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Entscheidungsprozess landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer, insbesondere in Regionen …