Human responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh : a proposal for sustainable floodplain development.

By:

Haque, C. E

Contributor(s):

Zaman, M. Q [jt. auth.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1993Description: 15 p. : illSubject: Examines the causes and impacts of the 1988 flood in Bangladesh, the fourth major flood since the country gained independence in 1971. Focus is on the range of human adjustments in mitigating the hazards. Deforestation and other modifications of the natural environment, through implementation of flood-related engineering schemes along the upstream reaches of the rivers, may partially cause abnormal floods in the downstream zones, but the physical and geographical characteristics of the region are primarily responsible. It is argued that technological prevention of floods would pose serious threats to long-term sustainability of the floodplain ecology and sociocultural resources of Bangladesh

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Bibliography: p. 105-107

Reprinted from World Development; 1993; Vol. 21; No. 1; p. 93-107

Examines the causes and impacts of the 1988 flood in Bangladesh, the fourth major flood since the country gained independence in 1971. Focus is on the range of human adjustments in mitigating the hazards. Deforestation and other modifications of the natural environment, through implementation of flood-related engineering schemes along the upstream reaches of the rivers, may partially cause abnormal floods in the downstream zones, but the physical and geographical characteristics of the region are primarily responsible. It is argued that technological prevention of floods would pose serious threats to long-term sustainability of the floodplain ecology and sociocultural resources of Bangladesh

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