Bimal Kanti Paul, Rejuan Hossain Bhuiyan
Bangladesh is vulnerable to seismic events. Experts suspect that if an earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude occurred in large cities of Bangladesh, there would be a major human tragedy due to the structural failure of many buildings. The primary objectives of this paper are to examine seismic risk percep...
Behrooz Hassani‐Mahmooei, Brett Parris
Abstract Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts such as extreme weather events, due to its low-lying topography, high population density and widespread poverty. In this paper, we report on the development and results of an agent-based model of the migration dyna...
Bishawjit Mallick, Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Joachim Vogt
M. Rezaul Islam, Mehedi Hasan
Judith C. Kulig, Dana Edge, Ivan Townshend, Nancy Lightfoot et al.
Reinhard Mechler, Chandni Singh, Kristie L. Ebi, Riyanti Djalante et al.
Abstract Recent evidence shows that climate change is leading to irreversible and existential impacts on vulnerable communities and countries across the globe. Among other effects, this has given rise to public debate and engagement around notions of climate crisis and emergency. The Loss and Damage...
A. S. M. Maksud Kamal, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Bayes Ahmed, Safiya M. Hassan et al.
Globally, a number of catastrophic hydrometeorological hazards occurred in 2017 among which the monsoon floods in South Asia was particularly disastrous, killing nearly 1200 people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The wetland region (Haor) of northeastern (NE) Bangladesh was severely affected by flas...
Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
Md Modasser Hossain Khan, Ian Bryceson, Korine N. Kolivras, Fazlay Faruque et al.
Abul Kalam Azad, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain, Mahbuba Nasreen
This study examines flood-induced vulnerabilities among women in northern Bangladesh. Poor and disadvantaged women are more vulnerable to disasters than men due to the conditions that predispose them to severe disaster impacts. Women suffer from physical injuries and are often evicted from their dwe...
Masud Iqbal Md Shameem, Salim Momtaz, Ray Rauscher
Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt M. Orlowski et al.
Introduction The Editors 1 The Culture of (De-)Constructing Disasters. 1.1 Framing Disasters in the 'Global Village': Cultures of Rationality in Risk, Security, and News Kenneth Hewitt 1.2 Conversations in Catastrophe: Neoliberalism and the cultural construction of disaster risk Anthony Oliver-Smith...
M. Rezaul Islam
Amelie Bernzen, J. Craig Jenkins, Boris Braun
Discussions of climate migration have recognized the need for probabilistic, systematic, and empirical analyses. We examine the importance of environmental stressors in migration using a multi-leveled analysis of a household survey of the climate-stressed rural communities of coastal Bangladesh. We ...