Journal of Coastal Zone Management

Department of Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Publications

• Review Article   
  Cyclone Vulnerability Reduction Management System in Bangladesh
  Author(s): Md Nur-Us-Shams* and Tasnuva Islam
  
  Bangladesh is one of the densely populated countries in the world. Currently, 150 million people lives here. Out of them, 35 million people, representing 24% of the total population in coastal districts (Second Administrative Tertiary) named as coastal areas. This coastal area covers 46080 square kilometer area which is 32% of the country. In Coastal areas, Cyclone cause great loss in any country; especially in Bangladesh. It damages not only human lives; but also damage roads, embankments and houses. Here, a huge number of coastal people and islanders lost their lives and cannot get emergency shelter facilities during cyclones due to uneven distribution and locations of existing shelters. Also, most of the rural people have lack of emergency facilities and their residents are far from existing shelters. The capacities of these existing shelters have been analyzed and found that some .. View more»
  

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