Perceptions of Flood Among Bangladeshi Villagers

Alam, S.M. Nurul

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7717.1990.tb01080.x

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“…8 Floods primarily affect the poor, who live in the river and coastal flats where land is cheap (Brouwer et al 2007). There is no political reason to protect the poor because votes can be bought 9 and floods are seen as an act of Allah (Alam 1990). This makes Bangladesh more vulnerable to climate change than the Netherlands.…”

Section: Coastal Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Tol¹

2018

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

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Section: Coastal Protectionmentioning

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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Tol¹

2018

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

567

229

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“…Past research on natural disasters (such as floods, river bank erosion, earthquakes, and cyclones) in Bangladesh has followed the geoanthropological approach of the Chicago-Colorado-Clark-Toronto School of Natural Hazard Studies associated with White (1964White ( , 1974 and Burton et al (1993). Falling within the first school of thought (i.e., the geographical approach) described by Alexander (2004), disaster response studies (Islam 1974;Alam 1990) deal with people's behaviour; their perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, values, responses, and personalities. They are concerned with discovering people's choices, behaviour, and adjustments to disaster, that is, how they viewed the catastrophe and how they perceived alternative opportunities available to them for coping with such event (Nasreen 2004).…”

Section: Disaster Research In Bangladeshmentioning

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Resilience of Small Scale Enterprises to Natural Disasters: A Study of a Flood Prone Area in Bangladesh

Khan

Sayem

2012

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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The study investigated the level of resilience of, and identified factors affecting resilience in, small scale enterprises. A cross sectional survey was carried out with a sample of 254 micro entrepreneurs in a subdistrict of the Sirajganj district in Bangladesh. To investigate different sorts of business resilience, we developed several items for each scale. Results indicate that the items in each of the capital-based resiliences are reliable and valid, suggesting that the capital-based approach developed by Mayunga (2007) can be used to further test validity and reliability. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that several factors had significant impact on different sorts of capital-based resilience. Although there was variation in capital specific resilience, education, monthly income, number of years of engagement in the current profession, number of employees, type of market, monthly income through revenue or disposal before disaster, loan received prior to disaster, and perception of recovery dynamics all had significant impact. The study concluded with theoretical and applied implications of the findings.

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“…M. N. Alam, 1990). Riverbank erosion and flooding are closely linked, given that severe erosion typically occurs when the force of the flowing water increases during the monsoon season.…”

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Environmental Change and Migration Aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh

Koubi¹,

Freihardt²,

Rudolph³

2022

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The argument that environmental change is an important driving force of migration has experienced a strong revival in the climate change context. We examine whether and how different environmental stressors aspire people to move. The analysis relies on newly collected, cross-sectional survey data of 1594 households residing in 36 villages along the 250 kilometers of the Jamuna River in Bangladesh – an area affected primarily by floods and riverbank erosion. The results show that long-term environmental events, i.e., riverbank erosion, increase aspirations for internal, permanent migration, while short-term environmental events, i.e., floods, do not affect migration aspirations. These results suggest that depending on the type of environmental change, people might prefer migrating rather than staying put and thus, they entail important policy implications regarding the effects of climate change on future internal migration flows.

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Perceptions of Flood Among Bangladeshi Villagers

Cited by 16 publications

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The Economic Impacts of Climate Change

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Resilience of Small Scale Enterprises to Natural Disasters: A Study of a Flood Prone Area in Bangladesh

Environmental Change and Migration Aspirations: Evidence from Bangladesh

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