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Tidal river management in Bangladesh

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The study by Auerbach et al.1 advances understanding of the drivers of flood risk in natural and embanked regions of the coastal and tidal regions of Bangladesh. The quantification of sedimentation rates and how effectively periodic opening and closing of polders may result in elevation recovery is valuable in the context of reducing the vulnerability of coastal Bangladesh to flooding in the twenty-first century.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, Washington, USA

    Faisal Hossain

  2. Estuary Division, Coast, Ports, Institute of Water Modelling (IWM), Dhaka, 1206, Bangladesh

    Zahirul Haque Khan

  3. School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, Ohio, USA

    C. K. Shum

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Hossain, F., Khan, Z. & Shum, C. Tidal river management in Bangladesh. Nature Clim Change 5, 492 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2618

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