Coastal Disaster Risk Management in Bangladesh Vulnerability and Resilience

Declaration

Acknowledgement

Abbreviations

Illustrations (List of Maps, Figures and Tables)

Mahbuba Nasreen, Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain

Chapter II: Understanding Vulnerability and Risk of Coastal Bangladesh

1 Effects on health of salinity due to environmental exposure: Experiences from Bangladesh

Md. Sadequr Rahman, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain, Joris van Loenhout, Pascaline Wallemacq, and Debarati Guha- Sapir

2 Does salinity intrusion increase the rate of chronic illness: a case study from Dacope upazila of coastal region of Bangladesh

Mohammad Abdul Quader, Md. Farhad Hasan, Md. Habibur Rahman, Md. Abdul Malak

3 'Life on the move', impacts of riverbank erosion on people's life: a case study of an eroding village in Bangladesh

Nahid Rezwana, Saadi Islam

Chapter III: Disaster, Water Insecurity and Management

1 Water insecurity and poverty: Changing livelihood in coastal Bangladesh

Monishankar Sarkar, MahbubaNasreen

2 Challenges of Safe Water Management in South-West Coastal Regions of Bangladesh

Syed Ashik – E – Elahi, Khondoker Mokaddem Hossain

3 Water management issues of coastal Bangladesh

Syed Hafizur Rahman, Prabal Barua

Chapter IV: Gender, Disaster and Social Inclusion

1. Why is women’s leadership important for enhancing disaster resilience to natural perturbations? Important insights from coastal communities of Bangladesh

Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan, Abul Kalam Azad, Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal, Dilara Zahid, Md. Abdul Malak,

2 Gender culture in water security of coastal Bangladesh: A maxim or redress

Sabrina Zaman, Mahbuba Nasreen, Fahreen Hossain

3 Where lies the problem with elderly population beneath the non-response to evacuation order? A study on cyclone Bulbul in cyclone-affected islands of Bangladesh

ZawadIbn Farid, Mahbuba Nasreen

4 Empowering women to enhance social equity and disaster resilience in coastal Bangladesh through climate change adaptation knowledge and technologies

Mahbuba Nasreen, Dwijen Mallick, Sharmind Neelormi

Chapter V: Disaster Risk, Human Capital and Preparedness

Mohammed Moniruzzaman Khan, Abu Hena Mostafa, Nurunnahar Mazumder

2 Role of Human Capital on Disaster Preparedness in the South-western Coastal Bangladesh

Mamunur Rahman, Md. Nasif Ahsan

3 Nature-based Solutions in Coastal Disaster Management in Bangladesh

Rezaur Rahman

4 Blue revolution in coastal Bangladesh: a call for an inclusive policy and sustainable governance

Choyon Kumar Saha, Md. Masud-All-Kamal

Chapter VI: Behavioural Change and Community Participation

1 Community priorities in disaster risk reduction interventions: a

critical perspective from Bangladesh

Tuhin Roy, Mahbuba Nasreen, Md Kamrul Hasan, M.M. Abdullah Al Mamun Sony

2 Developing a behaviour change intervention using the Behaviour Change Wheel to increase community participation in the local level disaster management process in Bangladesh

Sanjoy Kumar Chanda

3 Demographic determinants of disaster preparedness behavior amongst the inhabitants of South-West Coastal Bangladesh

Shahana Akter, Md. Mujibor Rahman

Chapter VII: Disaster Risk Governance & Policy Implementation

1 "Gaps on the Ground": Local-Level Policy Implementation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Coastal Bangladesh

C. Emdad Haque, M. Salim Uddin

2 Protective Effects of Existing Coastal Buffers

Syed LabibUl Islam, G M Tarekul Islam

3 Sustainable Livelihood and Urban Environment: learning from the disaster affected displaced population in Khulna city, Bangladesh

Mosammat Rowshan Ara, MahbubaNasreen

4 A conceptual approach for understanding the disaster-pandemic nexus

Rupkatha Priodarshini, Bishawjit Mallick, Saleemul Huq

5 Conclusions

Index

Biography

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.