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

M. Akhter Hamid and Bruce R. Frank

Chapter 16 in Development, Governance and the Environment in South Asia, 1999, pp 279-287 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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).

Keywords: Forest Department; Ecological Sustainability; Rural Poverty; Mangrove Vegetation; Tidal Bore (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27631-8_16

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