Hazards in a Fickle Environment: BangladeshSpringer Science & Business Media, 31 בדצמ׳ 1997 - 380 עמודים This book evolved from a collaborative research project between the University of Manitoba, Canada and Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, which commenced in 1984 to study the problems of river channel migration, rural population displacement and land relocation in Bangladesh. The study was sponsored by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), based in Ottawa, Canada. It was through this project that I started my journey into disaster research more than thirteen years ago with basically an applied problem of massive magnitude in Bangladesh. I spent two- and-a half-years, in two stages, in Bangladesh's riparian villages to collect the empirical data for this study. Then the growing disaster discourse throughout the 1980s, especially its conceptual and theoretical areas, drew me in further, gluing my interest to these issues. In the 1990s, during my research and teaching at Brandon University, Canada, I realized that, despite the large body of literature on natural disasters, there was no work that synthesized the approaches to nature-triggered disasters in a comprehensive form, with sufficient empirical substantiation. In addition, despite the great deal of attention given to disasters in Bangladesh, I found no detailed reference book on the topic. Natural hazards and disasters, in my view, should be studied under a holistic framework encompassing the natural environment, society and individuals. Overreaction to the limitations of technocratic-scientific approaches-the control and prevention of physical events through specialized knowledge and skills-has resulted in a call for "taking the naturalness out of natural disasters. |
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HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT AND DISASTROUS IMPACT The Challenge of Understanding and Responding | 3 |
The Study | 4 |
12 Environmental Threats and Disasters in Bangladesh | 8 |
A Conceptual Prologue to Hazard Studies | 12 |
A Conceptual Tool for Disaster Analysis | 19 |
15 Conceptualization of Riverine Hazards in Bangladesh | 27 |
16 Scope and Organization of the Study | 29 |
NATURAL DISASTERSINDUCED DISPLACEMENT An Overview of An Emergent Crisis | 31 |
Displacement Characteristics | 174 |
IMPACTS OF RIVERBANK EROSION DISASTER Understanding Differentials in Rural Socioeconomic Characteristics | 182 |
71 LandLoss and Population Displacement | 183 |
The Dynamics of Impoverization | 189 |
73 Effects of Displacement on Socioeconomic Characteristics | 194 |
74 The Model for Regressing Displacement Status on Household Income | 213 |
75 Conclusions | 220 |
COPING RESPONSES OF FLOODPLAIN USERS IN RURAL KAZIPUR | 221 |
Taxonomical and Definitional Problems | 33 |
23 Displacement Relocation and Resettlement | 46 |
HUMAN COPING RESPONSES TO NATURAL HAZARDS A Survey and Critique of Approaches | 55 |
32 Natural Hazards Research | 64 |
33 Human Coping Responses to Natural Hazards | 69 |
Riverine Hazards and Human Ecology Bangladesh | 79 |
PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS OF RIVERINE HAZARDS IN THE BENGAL BASIN The Case of the BrahmaputraJamuna Floodplain | 81 |
41 Physical Characteristics of the Bengal Basin | 82 |
43 River Channel Shifting and Bank Erosion Problems in the Brahmaputra Jamuna Floodplain | 100 |
44 Conclusions | 135 |
SOCIAL CLASS FORMATION AND VULNERABILITY OF THE POPULATION A Historical Account of Human Occupance and Land Resource M... | 137 |
51 River Channel Changes and their Impact on Human Habitat | 138 |
52 Settlement in the Delta Frontier | 142 |
53 Dynamics of Population Growth and Spatial Distribution | 144 |
Formation of the Bengal Peasantry | 152 |
55 The Process of Pauperization and Increasing Proneness to Natural Hazards | 155 |
56 Conclusions | 160 |
Riverbank Erosion Hazard in Serajganj District Impacts and Responses | 161 |
THE RURAL STUDY DESIGN The Characteristics of the Samples | 163 |
81 Patterns in Perception of Hazards | 222 |
82 Patterns in Coping Responses to Riverine Hazards | 226 |
A Test of Hypotheses | 238 |
THE DISPLACED POOR IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS The Case of Squatters in Serajganj | 253 |
92 Marginalization and Poverty in Squatter Settlements | 262 |
93 Resource Conflict and the Exclusion of Squatters | 272 |
94 Conclusions | 275 |
Emerging Policy Issues Towards Sustainable Reduction of Disasters and Floodplain Development | 277 |
PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES Water Management Hazard Mitigation and Resettlement | 279 |
101 Rural Development Food Riverbank Erosion Prevention and Control Policies | 280 |
102 Public Perception and Preference of the Future Government Role | 294 |
103 Policies Concerning Riverine DisastersInduced Displacees and Resettlement | 298 |
TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY | 303 |
112 Approaching a Sustainable Floodplain Development | 308 |
113 Broader Applications of the NAPP Framework | 311 |
NOTES | 315 |
REFERENCES | 327 |
INDEX | 367 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh <span dir=ltr>C.E. Haque</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2012 |
Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh <span dir=ltr>C.E. Haque</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2012 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
adjustment agricultural approach areas Assam Bahadurabad Bangladesh bank erosion bankline behavior Bengal Brahmaputra Brahmaputra River Brahmaputra-Jamuna River braided braided river Burton causes changes char characteristics coping measures coping strategies cumec Dhaka discharge displacees displacement status ecological economic effects embankments environment environmental environmental refugees erosion hazard factors floodplain floodplain users floods in Bangladesh Ganges geography geophysical groups Haque hectares high floods homestead household heads impact income India individuals involuntary migration Jamuna Kazipur Khan kilometers land landless landownership loss major Meghna meters migration natural disasters natural environment natural events natural hazards nature-society non-displacees occupational Oliver-Smith patterns percent political potential problems proportion protection rainfall refugees region relationship relatively resettlement risk river channel riverbank erosion riverine hazards rural sample sediment Serajganj significant social society socioeconomic square kilometers squatter settlements structure Table thana threats urban variables village vulnerability Zaman zamindars zones
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