Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh

Preface. Part One: Natural Hazards and Human Perspectives. 1. Hazardous Environment and Disastrous Impact: The Challenge of Understanding and Responding. 2. Natural Disasters-Induced Displacement: An Overview of an Emergent Crisis. 3. Human Coping Responses to Natural Hazards: A Survey and Critique of Approaches. Part Two: Riverine Hazards and Human Ecology: Bangladesh. 4. Physical Dimensions of Riverine Hazards in the Bengal Basin: The Case of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain. 5. Social Class Formation and Vulnerability of the Population: A Historical Account of Human Occupance and Land Resource Management. Part Three: Riverbank Erosion Hazard in Serajganj District: Impacts and Responses. 6. The Rural Study Design: The Characteristics of the Samples. 7. Impacts of Riverbank Erosion Disaster: Understanding Differentials in Rural Socio-economic Characteristics. 8. Coping Responses of Floodplain Users in Rural Kazipur. 9. The Displaced Poor in Urban Environments: The Case of Squatters in Serajganj. Part Four: Emerging Policy Issues: Towards Sustainable Reduction of Disasters and Floodplain Development. 10. Public Policy Issues: Water Management, Hazard Mitigation and Resettlement. 11. Towards a Sustainable Floodplain Development Strategy. Notes. References. Index.