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Local civil engineers are transferring retrofitting technology from Japanese experts to turn important public buildings into tremor resistant to minimise damage from possible high-intensity earthquake, reports the Daily Star...
Development researchers Shammunul Islam and M. Mizanur Rahman take a look at the effect of climate change on urban populations and stresses the urgency for the government along with development partners to plan ahead...
The Daily Star reports social issues in budgeting, highlighting Dhaka's earthquake vulnerability. The Food and Disaster Minister Abdur Razzak admits that 'the government has prepared a list of 70,000 houses in earthquake risk in Dhaka city...' including schools, says the report...
A Cancun Climate Conference debrief highlighted the emergence of many indicators of climate vulnerability in Bangladesh and stressed the need to concentrate on building capacity to utilise the climate change fund as well as the need for involving local communities to implement the adaptation programmes...
Speaking at the National Sharing Workshop under the fifth DIPECHO Action Plan Outcome for South Asia, disaster risk reduction specialist, Dilruba Haider, said that people in general are more concerned over electricity shortage or traffic jams than earthquakes or floods...
Most buildings essential for providing earthquake victims with support, shelter and treatment are themselves vulnerable even to moderate tremors, reports the Daily Star. 'A risk analysis of hospitals should be conducted and steps should be taken', said Maksud Kamal, urban risk reduction specialist...
'As part of disaster risk reduction efforts, the government has to relocate the industrial, commercial and administrative setups from the old part of the capital to avert any further human disaster,' said Prof Mehedi Ahmed Ansary, director of Buet-Japan Institute of Disaster Prevention and Urban Safety...
Speaking at a recent event organized by the Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC), experts called for a formulation of policies focusing on disaster risk reduction instead of the current practice of post-disaster response and recovery...
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