The population of Bangladesh is increasing and land is being converted from productive purposes to other uses. Present per capita agricultural land of 0.056 hectare will be decreased to 0.025 hectare by 2050....

The issue of climate change (CC) and air pollution (AP) is a matter of integration due to the interaction at their happening and impact creation. In this book the impact on each other is described and compared at urban setting....

This book makes an effort to provide an outline of library systems and services of selected major university libraries in Bangladesh....

Flexibility is a theoretical concept that can stand for a range of things. It is still ambiguous whether flexibility offers benefits for both employers and employees....

Microcredit has been considered one of the most significant innovations in the field of development in the last thirty years. It has contributed positively to the natural resource management by forming social capital, creating alternate income and diversifying livelihoods of resource dependent rural people....

Corruption is among the most frequently experienced problems in life anywhere, though with varying degree of spread and depth. There is not hardly any areas which is not affected by it. Corruption is one kind of act or misconduct in which that violates the rules and regulations, abuse of power, deviant behavior for personal gain by an authority....

The promotion and protection of human rights is one of the basic objectives of the United Nations. Peacekeeping Operations is an important activity of the UN in modern time. Human rights issues in peacekeeping operations are a perceptive phenomenon....

Benzodiazepines represent a large and important class of psychotherapeutic agents acting on the central nervous system....

Bladder cancer is the second most common urological malignancy after prostate cancer. Over all it is the fourth common cancer of all malignancy in male and the eighth most common cancers in female. Check cystoscopy in patients with recurrent bladder tumors creates a large urological workload....

The concept of microfinance has gained immense popularity among the international development community as a technique to poverty alleviation and microenterprise development. Due to such positive impacts, microfinance institutions are growing rapidly across the world....

Vertical coordination through contracts between farmers and other stages of the agro food chain have been of growing importance in US agriculture. Production contract arrangements between contractors and individual growers have been one of the major vehicles of this emerging system of vertical coordination....

Bangladesh has a long history of inequitable access to land. The amount of land available for cultivation owned by each household is declining and the number of landless households is rising. If households are unable to cultivate their own land, they turned on working or sharecropping on land belonging to others....

Bangladesh has made a significant effort to supply improved sanitation facilities in rural areas. As the best known option, the pit latrine was the most favorite technology....

Bangladesh initiated the process of trade liberalization in the early 1980s as recommended by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This book analyses the impact of trade liberalization on economic performance of Bangladesh by using the time series data of 1981-2005 with the help of cointegration and error correction methods....

Diseases and parasites of mollusks were identified as a critical information gap in relation to tropical mollusk aquaculture planning and development. There is bulk of information of research and monitoring on mollusk diseases from temperate waters whereas, little is known about the tropical mollusk diseases....