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Dewan Ahsan
Researcher at University of Southern Denmark
Publications - 44
Citations - 701
Dewan Ahsan is an academic researcher from University of Southern Denmark. The author has contributed to research in topics: Risk management & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 44 publications receiving 509 citations. Previous affiliations of Dewan Ahsan include University of Cádiz & University of Dhaka.
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Farmers' motivations, risk perceptions and risk management strategies in a developing economy: Bangladesh experience
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory study has been conducted to provide empirical insight into Bangladeshi coastal shrimp farmers' risk perceptions and risk management responses and the results reveal that shrimp diseases, price and availability of quality shrimp seeds, exploitation by intermediaries and uncertainty about the future demand for shrimp in foreign markets are the most important sources of risk.
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Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands
Alice Newton,John Icely,Sónia Cristina,G E Perillo,R. Eugene Turner,Dewan Ahsan,Simon M. Cragg,Yong-Ming Luo,Tu Chen,Yuan Li,Haibo Zhang,Ramachandran Ramesh,Donald L. Forbes,Cosimo Solidoro,Béchir Béjaoui,Shu Gao,Roberto Pastres,Heath Kelsey,Dylan Taillie,Nguyen H. Nhan,Ana C. Brito,Ricardo Franco de Lima,Claudia Kuenzer +22 more
TL;DR: In this article, the main economic sectors and activities in and around the coastal wetlands and their catchments exert multiple pressures that affect the state of the wetlands and the delivery of valuable ecosystem services.
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Distribution of arsenic and trace metals in the floodplain agricultural soil of Bangladesh.
TL;DR: It is revealed that the area which has arsenic and trace metal contaminated groundwater may also contain high level of arsenic and Trace metals in the agricultural soil due to irrigation with contaminated groundwater.
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Farmers' perceived risks and risk management strategies in an emerging mussel aquaculture industry in Denmark.
Dewan Ahsan,Eva Roth +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory study is conducted to provide empirical insight into how mussel farmers perceive and manage risks, and the results show that future price, de-mand for mussels, and changes in public regulation are the highranked perceived risks.
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Does natural disaster influence people׳s risk preference and trust? An experiment from cyclone prone coast of Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the effect of natural disasters on individuals' risk preference and level of trust and find that risk attitudes are significantly negatively correlated with trust, whereas the catastrophic events have no influence on trusting behavior.