Strengthening Pluvial Flood Risk Management in the Southeast Region of Bangladesh: Lessons Learnt from the EU Policy and Practice

Flood resiliency approach for urban planning: critical review and future research agenda

“…Nowadays FRM in many developing countries is still reactive rather than preventive, because the economic growth, which is heavily reliant on extensive land conversion, was their main concern [7]. Change movement began to appear in Ghana, India, Cameroon and Bangladesh but was hampered by limited resources and institutional, financial limitation, ignorance of the existence of urban planning legislation also lack of effective planning and policy [5,29,[66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73]. Viewed based on their geographical location, countries in Asia such as China and Japan more advanced in their FRM rather than African countries.…”

“…The development of such a regulation is reportedly in progress, and consideration should be given to the next steps; 3) Buffer Zone regulation is limited to a few regions. The implementation of this law on a national scale was also recommended; 4) the absence of dumping regulation legislation; 5) the absence of participation in strategy formulation, which causes communities to be resistant to eviction and relocation attempts by city authorities [5,9,66,67,72,73,83]. Philippines have influential barrier for adaptation in integrated FRM such as lack of a single organizing body, followed by a lack of communication, and finally a lack of funding [84].…”