has pursued a range of initiatives to arrest this continued decline but none has appeared to be 9 appropriate. In this study we investigated the present fisheries management crisis of Bangladesh and 10 justified the opportunities for existing fisheries management to evolve towards community based 11 fisheries management (CBFM) to support the sustainable use of fisheries resources in future.
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Bus systems provide a versatile form of public transportation with the flexibility to serve a variety of access needs throughout an urban area. Efficient operation of the public transport is a key factor for the improvement of living condition in Dhaka city. Transport service performance should be assessed from the passengers' perspectives to evaluate these perceptions in transportation planning. The exploration of service quality of bus is essential in order to provide a better service in future. The objective of this research is to access overall customer satisfaction in public bus transport of Dhaka city. A questionnaire survey was conducted in five locations in Dhaka city. Bus users' satisfaction was analyzed by discrete choice logit model towards quality, reliability, safety and security and service provided by buses functioning in Dhaka city. The result indicated that more than half of the respondents believed that the present condition of bus service is not satisfactory. In case of the quality of buses, people think that the body and sitting arrangement of the buses are uncomfortable. Regarding the safety and security condition, main three reasons of dissatisfaction of passengers' are unsafe driving practices, poor boarding and alighting facilities and lack of law enforcing agencies surveillance. Reasons which make the service unsatisfactory include irregular service provided by buses, regular overcrowding, lack of good standard buses and lack of cleanliness. In spite of these negative views, users' possessed a positive attitude for buses which is the low travel cost.
Bangladesh, being one of the most climate change vulnerable countries of the world pioneered in testing and adopting various adaptation technologies and approaches in different geographical settings of the country. Institutional response to climate change threats is refl ected by the preparation and submission of Bangladesh NAPA to UNFCCC in 2005 earlier than many other least developed countries. Apart from various local adaptation initiatives undertaken by communities and NGOs, government agencies along with other actors are also implementing a number of adaptation projects in the area of agriculture, aquaculture and water and disaster management in different climate sensitive areas of the country through involvement of vulnerable communities. Being a least developed country with high population, major thrusts are given in food production and a number of technologies are in practice in the agriculture sector in different geographical locations have specifi c climate related stressors that necessitate specifi c adaptation technologies and options. Some adaptation initiatives to address disaster events and some piloting are done in disaster prone areas of the country have good lessons need to be documented for wider dissemination. Although various climate change adaptation project/activities are ongoing, stock taking of adaptation technologies in practice in geographical locations has not done yet for analysis of their effectiveness and further improvements. This chapter has two objectives. First, it briefl y describes different adaptation technologies currently in practice in different climate sensitive disaster prone areas of the country by different actors with focus on agriculture, aquaculture, water and disaster risk reduction subsectors. Second, it briefl y touches upon the potential for further innovations and extension of adaptation technologies reaching the millions of poor vulnerable communities live in the frontline of climate change impacts in Bangladesh and beyond.
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