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In the middle of 2007, a severe flood affected the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. This is a natural disaster that …. Despite many adverse impacts, the flood situation is an accepted phenomenon to the citizens of Bangladesh, due to the immense … carried downstream to Bangladesh. This was the main cause of the flooding in 2007. The first crossing above the danger level …
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Cyclone Sidr, a Category 4 storm, struck the southwestern coast of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, causing 3 … cyclone survivors by the government of Bangladesh along with donor and other organizations. However, nutritional insecurity …
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Nature-triggered hazards and disasters have traditionally been treated only from the lens of geophysical and biophysical processes, implying that the root cause of large-scale death and destruction lies in the natural domain rather than in a coupled human–environment system. Conceptually, the...
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Death tolls from tornadoes in Bangladesh are the highest in the world due to lack of storm warnings, poor communication … Bangladesh and reduce the descent into poverty that results from losses in severe local storms. Copyright Springer Science …
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-level characteristics between the FSW-affected and non-affected areas. Bangladesh as a whole and slums in the megacity of Dhaka in …-affected areas and urban slums in the rapidly growing city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht …
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Meteorological drought events occur in Bangladesh are diagnosed using monthly rainfall and mean air temperature from … Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and International Disaster Database are used to verify the SPI and PDSI detected events. The SPI … and monthly PDSI are obtained for 27 station data across Bangladesh as well as for two subregions over the country. Result …
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Bangladesh are analyzed. Several types of meteorological instruments capable of observations with high temporal and spatial … an automatic weather station (AWS) and several automatic raingauges (ARGs) and utilized the weather radar of Bangladesh …
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. During the flooding season of1998, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC)of the Bangladesh Water Development Board …, forecaster's experience, andmodel simulation. This paper primarily examines therole and activities of the FFWC, especially in … prolonged flood inthe history of Bangladesh. It also revealed that,despite various limitations, the flood forecasts ofthe FFWC …
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southwestern region of Bangladesh. It also examines human perception of this new hazard and their methods of adjustments to its … (lowest administrative units) in Jessore and Satkhira districts of southwestern Bangladesh. Findings of the study suggest that …
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In probabilistic terms, Bangladesh is prone, to at least one major 'tropical cyclone' every year. This situation is … primarily due to the geographical location of Bangladesh in tropical Asia, and to its concave coastline and shallow continental … coastal inhabitants, and the lack of a coordinated institutional disaster planning and management strategy. Bangladesh has …
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