Sonia Akter, Bishawjit Mallick
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...
Bishawjit Mallick, Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Joachim Vogt
Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
In this study the effectiveness of adaptive coping strategies to reduce the damage cost and its consequences for social structural change are examined. Here, migration is considered as a strategic step to cope with the adverse effect of cyclone Aila of 2009 in Bangladesh. A survey of 288 respondents...
Carol A. Wilson, S. L. Goodbred, Christopher Small, Jonathan M. Gilligan et al.
Since the 1960s, ~5000 km2 of tidal deltaplain in southwest Bangladesh has been embanked and converted to densely inhabited, agricultural islands (i.e., polders). This landscape is juxtaposed to the adjacent Sundarbans, a pristine mangrove forest, both well connected by a dense network of tidal chan...
Bangkim Biswas, Bishawjit Mallick, Apurba Roy, Zakia Sultana
Agricultural Extension Services (AES) aim to improve farming knowledge that helps in increasing crop production and the technical efficiency of paddy farmers in Bangladesh. The purposes of this study are to measure the impact of an AES, namely, the Blue Gold programme, on the technical efficiency an...
Bishawjit Mallick
This research aims to ascertain how, and to what extent, livelihood resilience influences migration decisions (to migrate or not to migrate) of people who live in vulnerable socio-ecological systems (SESs). To do so, first, the characteristics of different SESs are determined; secondly, livelihood r...
Bishawjit Mallick, Zakia Sultana, Christy Bennett
Every individual strives to improve their quality of life, and therefore, adopts strategies to cope with the adverse situation of their livelihood. The decision to migrate (i.e. migration) or to stay (i.e. non-migration) is one such strategy to combat unexpected disturbances to their livelihoods. Th...
Bishawjit Mallick, Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Joachim Vogt
Abstract Purpose – The opportunities and potentials of the coastal zone all over the world have not received much attention, and also the disaster mitigation approaches are seen as a curative measure rather than protective, both of which raise questions about sustainable coastal belt planning and de...
Bishawjit Mallick
Bangladesh is one of the poorest and the most disaster-prone countries in Asia; it is important, therefore, to know how its disaster reduction strategies are organised and planned. Cyclone shelters comprise a widely acceptable form of infrastructural support for disaster management in Bangladesh. Th...
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...
Kushal Roy, Animesh K. Gain, Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Md. Sultan Mahmud, Bishawjit Mallick
Keeping the dynamic nature of Coronaviruses (COVID-19) pandemic in mind, we have opted to explore the importance of the decentralization of COVID-19 testing centers across the country of Bangladesh in order to combat the pandemic. In doing so, we considered quantitative, qualitative, and geographic ...
Bishawjit Mallick, Joachim Vogt
Purpose This paper aims to discuss issues related to disaster mitigation planning provisions in Bangladesh, one of the most disaster‐prone countries in Asia. It seeks to concentrate on the issues related to the role of local groups in establishing cyclone shelters. Design/methodology/approach In Feb...