Md. Nasif Ahsan, Jeroen Warner
Pankaj Kumar, Ram Avtar, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Brian Alan Johnson et al.
Rapid global changes (population growth, urbanization and frequent extreme weather conditions) have cumulatively affected local water bodies and resulted in unfavorable hydrological, ecological, and environmental changes in the major river systems. Particularly, communities in isolated riverine isla...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, Jeroen Warner
Despite sincere efforts by concerned agencies and recent improvements in hazard warnings, thousands of at-risk people did not evacuate during Aila, a category-I tropical cyclone that struck southwestern coastal Bangladesh in 2009. This study investigated the responses of the people affected by Aila ...
Bangkim Biswas, Zakia Sultana, Chup Priovashini, Md. Nasif Ahsan et al.
This research aims to review the total collection of literature on the ‘residential satisfaction’ concept used in social research from 1961 to 2020, and provides a complete overview on how social research concerning ‘residential satisfaction’ has emerged and developed in the last 60 years. We follow...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Amina Khatun, Md. Sariful Islam, Karina Vink et al.
Cyclone early warning systems are the primary sources of information that enable people to develop a preparedness strategy to mitigate the hazards of cyclones to lives and livelihoods. In Bangladesh, cyclone early warnings have significantly decreased the number of cyclone related fatalities over th...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Fatema Khatun, Pankaj Kumar, Rajarshi Dasgupta et al.
Abstract Despite confronting severe climatic risks, many people prefer to remain in climate hazard-prone areas rather than migrate. Environmental non-migration behavior, however, has gained relatively little research attention in the field of migration processes. This study aims to unveil the determ...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, Miho Ohara et al.
Researchers are investigating a broad spectrum of factors affecting positively and/or negatively the evacuation decision-making process occurring after people at risk receive cyclone warnings and advisories. Previous studies suggest that early warnings themselves do not propagate evacuation processe...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Amina Khatun
Media plays an important role during hazard emergency communication. Community radio, as a part of media, has emerged as a management tool for influencing at-risk people's preparedness for natural disasters. In Bangladesh, the concept of community radio is relatively new in terms of combating cyclon...
Md. Sariful Islam, Sonia Afrin, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Mohammed Ziaul Haider et al.
Abstract Nonfunctionality of engineered water sources after two catastrophic cyclones—Sidr in November 2007 and Aila in May 2009—created acute scarcity of safe drinking water in coastal Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to estimate households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for disaster resilien...
M Mohibbullah, Animesh K. Gain, Md. Nasif Ahsan
Sadia Tasneem, Md. Nasif Ahsan
Fatema Khatun, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Sonia Afrin, Jeroen Warner et al.
Bangkim Biswas, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Bishawjit Mallick
This study aims to understand the level of residential satisfaction of the host communities' aftermath of the influx of Rohingya in Bangladesh. A total of 151 household heads were randomly interviewed from Ukhiya and Ramu Upazila of Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh. A residential satisfaction index ...
Md. Nasif Ahsan, Sheikh Hadiujjaman, Md. Sariful Islam, Nishad Nasrin et al.
Abstract Discontentment with a piped supply system of drinking water has become a significant concern in Bangladesh's urban areas in recent years, necessitating the improvement of different aspects of the system in question. Therefore, by conducting a discrete choice experiment on 115 households out...
Karina Vink, Md. Nasif Ahsan
Cyclones (i.e. typhoons, hurricanes) are known for their destructive power and negative effects on livelihoods. Potential benefits are often ignored, when some people depend on cyclone impacts. Currently few publications on potential benefits exist, and most concern a single country or cyclone. This...