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Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Hazards in a Fickle Environment: Bangladesh (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 10
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This book evolved from a collaborative research project between the
University of Manitoba, Canada and Jahangirnagar University,
Bangladesh, which commenced in 1984 to study the problems of river
channel migration, rural population displacement and land
relocation in Bangladesh. The study was sponsored by the
International Development Research Center (IDRC), based in Ottawa,
Canada. It was through this project that I started my journey into
disaster research more than thirteen years ago with basically an
applied problem of massive magnitude in Bangladesh. I spent two-
and-a half-years, in two stages, in Bangladesh's riparian villages
to collect the empirical data for this study. Then the growing
disaster discourse throughout the 1980s, especially its conceptual
and theoretical areas, drew me in further, gluing my interest to
these issues. In the 1990s, during my research and teaching at
Brandon University, Canada, I realized that, despite the large body
of literature on natural disasters, there was no work that
synthesized the approaches to nature-triggered disasters in a
comprehensive form, with sufficient empirical substantiation. In
addition, despite the great deal of attention given to disasters in
Bangladesh, I found no detailed reference book on the topic.
Natural hazards and disasters, in my view, should be studied under
a holistic framework encompassing the natural environment, society
and individuals. Overreaction to the limitations of
technocratic-scientific approaches-the control and prevention of
physical events through specialized knowledge and skills-has
resulted in a call for "taking the naturalness out of natural
disasters.
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