Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas U. Bhuyia, Amit Choudhury, Rita Sen
Living with natural disasters has become a way of life in Bangladesh. On the night of 29 April 1991 a severe cyclonic storm, accompanied by tidal surges up to 30 feet high, battered the coastal areas of Bangladesh for 3-4 hours. Thousands of people were killed and property worth billions of dollars ...
Rabiul Islam, Greg Walkerden
David Mutton, C. Emdad Haque
The purpose of this research was to identify and analyse patterns of economic and social adaptation among river-bank erosion-induced displacees in Bangladesh. It was hypothesised that the role of social demographic and socio-economic variables in determining the coping ability and recovery of the ri...
Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, Kees van der Geest, Istiakh Ahmed, Saleemul Huq et al.
The Ganges–Brahmaputra delta enables Bangladesh to sustain a dense population, but it also exposes people to natural hazards. This article presents findings from the Gibika project, which researches livelihood resilience in seven study sites across Bangladesh. This study aims to understand how peopl...
Ubydul Haque, Masahiro Hashizume, Korine N. Kolivras, Hans J. Overgaard et al.
Tropical storms, such as cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, present major threats to coastal communities. Around two million people worldwide have died and millions have been injured over the past two centuries as a result of tropical storms. Bangladesh is especially vulnerable to tropical cyclones,...
Russell Kabir, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Emma Ball, Kay Caldwell
Bangladesh is considered one of the countries most at risk to the effects of climate change and its coastal area is most vulnerable. This study tries to explore the experiences of cyclones Sidr and Aila affected people living in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. This study was conducted in the cyclon...
Farhana Sultana
Considerable literature exists on floods and weather-related disasters, but limited attention has been given to the varied social implications of hazards in the lives of people, especially from a gender perspective. This is particularly poignant in floodplains and coastal areas, where water is a key...
Boris Braun, Tibor Aßheuer
Shitangsu Kumar Paul, Jayant K. Routray
Shitangsu Kumar Paul, Jayant K. Routray
This paper explores peoples' indigenous survival strategies and assesses variations in people's ability to cope with floods in two flood-prone villages in Bangladesh. It reveals that people continuously battle against flood vulnerability in accordance with their level of exposure and abilities, with...
Khurshed Alam, Md. Habibur Rahman
Bupinder Zutshi, Akbaruddin Ahmad, Ananda Babu Srungarapati
Bimal Kanti Paul
Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath ...
Rabiul Islam, Greg Walkerden
Bishawjit Mallick, Bayes Ahmed, Joachim Vogt
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. Cyclone disasters that affect millions of people, destroy homesteads and livelihoods, and trigger migration are common in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The aim of this article is to understand how the coastal communities in Ban...