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    • Disaster management and development in Bangladesh: education perspective 

      Fuad H., Mallick; Rahman, Mohammad Aminur (© 2009 Published by Research Publishing Services., 2009)
      Natural disasters are considered as an impediment to development. The consequences of disasters may stop or slow down the development both locally and globally.While disasters are a threat to sustainable development, ...
    • Disaster management and development in Bangladesh: education perspective 

      Rahman, Mohammad Aminur; Mallick, Fuad Hassan (© 2009 Published by Research Publishing Services., 2009)
      Natural disasters are considered as an impediment to development. The consequences of disasters may stop or slow down the development both locally and globally.While disasters are a threat to sustainable development, ...
    • Flood shelters in Bangladesh: some issues from the user's perspective 

      Rahman, Mohammad Aminur; Mallick, Fuad Hassan; Mondal, M. Shahjahan; Rahman, Rezaur
      Flood is an integral part of Bangladesh and so is the suffering of the people living in flood-prone areas. Unlike cyclone shelters, very few designated flood shelters exist in Bangladesh; this is because of the difference ...
    • Impacts of flood on the lives and livelyhoods of people in Bangladesh: A case study of a village in Manikganj district 

      Rahman, Saleh Ur (BRAC University, 2014)
      Water induced disaster including flood accounts over 30% of total losses of lives due to natural disaster in Bangladesh. On one hand, spatial variation on geography over short reaches, young and complex geology, and ...
    • In support of urban adaptation: a participatory assessment process for secondary cities in Vietnam and Bangladesh 

      Mallick, Fuad H.; McEvoy, Darryn; Ahmed, Iftekhar; Trundle, Alexei; Sang, Le Thanh; Diem, Nguyen Ngoc; Suu, Lam Thi Thu; Quoc, Tran Ba; Rahman, Rezaur; Rahman, Mohammad Aminur; Mukherjee, Nandan; Nishat, Ainun (© 1996 Taylor & Francis Online, 2014-02-26)
      Vietnam and Bangladesh are countries already impacted by weather-related extreme events. Scientific modelling projections indicate that climate change, and changes to climate variability, will increase risks for both ...
    • In support of urban adaptation: a participatory assessment process for secondary cities in Vietnam and Bangladesh 

      Rahman, Mohammad Aminur; McEvoy, Darryn; Ahmed, Iftekhar; Trundle, Alexei; Sang, Le Thanh; Diem, Nguyen Ngoc; Suu, Lam Thi Thu; Quoc, Tran Ba; Mallick, Fuad Hassan; Rahman, Rezaur; Mukherjee, Nandan; Nishat, Ainun (© 1996 Taylor & Francis Online, 2014-02-26)
      Vietnam and Bangladesh are countries already impacted by weather-related extreme events. Scientific modelling projections indicate that climate change, and changes to climate variability, will increase risks for both ...
    • Reducing the health effect of natural hazards in Bangladesh 

      Rahman, Mohammad Aminur; Mallick, Fuad Hassan; Cash, Richard A; Halder, Shantana R; Husain, Mushtuq; Islam, Md Sirajul; May, Maria A; Rahman, Mahmudur (© 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc., 2013-11)
      Bangladesh, with a population of 151 million people, is a country that is particularly prone to natural disasters: 26% of the population are affected by cyclones and 70% live in flood-prone regions. Mortality and morbidity ...
    • State of disaster risk management in Dhaka city 

      Rahman, Mohammad Aminur (BRAC University, 2006-09)
      This study is aimed at giving an idea about where we are standing regarding disaster risks in Dhaka. It started with the disaster management context at the national level and detailed out the development and urban management ...