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Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub

Bangladesh's policy makers, did not even incorporate the word 'environment' in its national development plans prior to 1990. After the two major floods in Bangladesh-1987 and 1988- got environmentalists linking deforestation, hydrological interventions, global warming, unwise land use...

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Main Author: Yakub, Nerun N
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Communication and Media Studies (FCMS) 1993
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Public policy (General). Policy sciences
Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting
Bangladesh
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spelling my.uitm.ir.636832022-07-12T05:54:36Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63683/ Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub Yakub, Nerun N Public policy (General). Policy sciences Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting Bangladesh Bangladesh's policy makers, did not even incorporate the word 'environment' in its national development plans prior to 1990. After the two major floods in Bangladesh-1987 and 1988- got environmentalists linking deforestation, hydrological interventions, global warming, unwise land use and other natural and man-made phenomena with our disasters, decision-makers were stirred into considering a national environment policy, to guide development, resource utilisation and resource replenishment. Even then in the country's fourth and latest plan-which was being drafted sometime after the great floods, -environment gets only a token mention. And the draft environment policy was not worked out until 1991. But its fate is yet to be decided. In the second year of the Decade of Environment, Bangladesh finds itself still grappling with what its environment policy should incorporate and emphasise, leave out or underplay. The Ministry of Industry is reportedly resisting the national environment policy and action plan on the grounds that its adoption would retard industrialsation and economic recovery. Faculty of Communication and Media Studies (FCMS) 1993-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63683/1/63683.pdf Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub. (1993) Forum Komunikasi, 3 (1): 5. pp. 54-60. ISSN 0127-8991 https://forumkomunikasi.uitm.edu.my/
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topic Public policy (General). Policy sciences
Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting
Bangladesh
spellingShingle Public policy (General). Policy sciences
Attribution of news. Reporters and reporting
Bangladesh
Yakub, Nerun N
Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub
description Bangladesh's policy makers, did not even incorporate the word 'environment' in its national development plans prior to 1990. After the two major floods in Bangladesh-1987 and 1988- got environmentalists linking deforestation, hydrological interventions, global warming, unwise land use and other natural and man-made phenomena with our disasters, decision-makers were stirred into considering a national environment policy, to guide development, resource utilisation and resource replenishment. Even then in the country's fourth and latest plan-which was being drafted sometime after the great floods, -environment gets only a token mention. And the draft environment policy was not worked out until 1991. But its fate is yet to be decided. In the second year of the Decade of Environment, Bangladesh finds itself still grappling with what its environment policy should incorporate and emphasise, leave out or underplay. The Ministry of Industry is reportedly resisting the national environment policy and action plan on the grounds that its adoption would retard industrialsation and economic recovery.
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title Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub
title_short Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub
title_full Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub
title_fullStr Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub
title_full_unstemmed Media coverage of environmental issues in Bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / Nerun N Yakub
title_sort media coverage of environmental issues in bangladesh and its role in influencing policy and action / nerun n yakub
publisher Faculty of Communication and Media Studies (FCMS)
publishDate 1993
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63683/1/63683.pdf
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https://forumkomunikasi.uitm.edu.my/
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