Coastal Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Resilience (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.

Located in the lower riparian of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh has to face frequent disasters such as floods, cyclones, river erosion, salinity intrusion as well as drought. Drawing together a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, Coastal Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh explores the connection between climate change and DRR issues in this region. The editors reorganize disaster studies around social and physical changes that can reduce these risks and put at risk populations on a stronger footing by making risk reduction the focus. These include measures to improve disaster preparedness, to boost recovery by creating better disaster planning and programs, and physical and social initiatives to improve disaster resilience. Also, analyzing the gender perspective, the volume also utilizes the local knowledge framework to consider whether these populations have resilient knowledge that needs to be incorporated into initiatives based on advanced technology and perspectives.

This book will be of interest to academics, researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners in the field of disaster, DRR and governance, climate change, climate change adaptation (CCA) and the environment.

Mahbuba Nasreen is Professor and former Director at the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain is Professor and founding Director at the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan is Associate Professor at the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.