1. Introduction The number of natural disaster is increasing over the years and its impact to the economy and environment has increased remarkably. Flood disaster is a major threat to the environment and is responsible for the economic loss worldwide. Flood frequency, magnitude, extent and cost is accelerating quickly all over the world (Adjei-darko, 2017). A single major flood event can affect several countries simultaneously and can pressure on risk reduction and transfer (Jongman et al., 2014)
Introduction: Natural disaster is a sudden and terrific event in nature (such as a hurricane, tornado, flood, heat waves,typhoon) that usually results in serious damage and a huge amount of deaths. It's basically defined as an event of nature, which overwhelms local resources and threatens the function of process and security of the community. Generally, disasters are the ultimate test of a community’s emergency response capacity . Bangladesh is one of the largest deltas in the world which is highly
Natural Calamities in Bangladesh Or, Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Introduction: Bangladesh is one of developing countries of south-east Asia. It is visited by different natural calamities almost every year. Our fate is that we have to survive by fighting against reoccurring natural calamities. Ours is a life of great challenge indeed. Causes of natural calamities: the world climate is undergoing a rapid and major change day by bay with a negative effect for human habitation on earth. This change
Natural disasters and political issues in Bangladesh during the 1940s and subsequent decades provided the block for the development of what is today one of the world’s largest nongovernment organization (NGO) sectors. Famine took more than 3 million lives in 1943, and Typhoon killed more than 500,000 in 1970. Ranada Prasad Shaha is a coal trading business man who built the Kumudini Hospital to provided free medical care and treatment to people from different communities by that he fulfilled
Indigenous Coping Mechanism for Combating Disaster in Bangladesh Abstract: The study has been conducted based on broad objective of exploring indigenous coping mechanisms for combating disaster at Koyra upazila of Khulna and Patharghata upazila of Barguna district in Bangladesh. For attaining broad objective the study focuses some important objectives that include revealing indigenous perception about disaster, exploring indigenous coping mechanisms, revealing Governmental and NGOs mechanisms and
and mitigating natural disasters remains a pioneering activity. However the circulation of the technology is still hindered by many issues such as the difficulty in obtaining the appropriate raw data, the lack of effective graphical user interfaces, the intricacy of predictive models and the expense of digitisation (Carrara et al., 1999). Natural disasters are becoming more frequent around the world, as seen in figure 1, which shows that in 1975 there were approximately 50 disasters
Development Goals (MDGs) project in Bangladesh and Nepal Research Question: How does Foreign Aid impact Gender Inequality in Bangladesh and Nepal? Proposal: The impact of gender inequality in Bangladesh and Nepal is often influenced by the lack of good governance in impoverished countries such as these. Without good governance, it is likely that only a fraction of that aid will go towards rebuilding the lives of survivors from a natural disaster. Natural disasters can also be a strong indicator as
The Cause and Effect of Food Insecurity In Bangladesh “Bangladesh is the nature's laboratory on natural disaster.” says Ainun Nishat, from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Devastated by floods, a low lying south Asian country with a high poverty rate and severe food insecurity, suffers the consequences of on-going destructive natural disasters. Their habitual food insecurity is one of the most concerning outcomes that significantly impacts people’s wellbeing. One of the local citizen
The Reasons for Decreasing of Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh Abstract Bangladesh is an agriculture based developing country in the world. It has many agricultural products which help to develop economy. Such as, Jute is one of the most important exporting goods which are agricultural product and Bangladesh earns a lot of foreign currency from this goods as well as this agricultural sector. From the beginning of this country, Bangladesh was dependent on agriculture sector for development. This
achieve these goals. They also aim to improve the economic social and environmental wellbeing of Bangladesh. The following report will outline and analyse two strategies as well as evaluate these stratergies against three criteria; social, economic and environment in order to improve the development and overall wellbeing for the people of bangladesh. With an area of about 147,570 sq. km, Bangladesh is located north of the Equator along the Tropic of Cancer and in South Asia. The country is bordered