Revista de Gestão da Zona Costeira

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Cyclone Vulnerability Reduction Management System in Bangladesh

Md Nur-Us-Shams, Tasnuva Islam

Bangladesh is one of the densely populated countries in the world. Currently, 150 million people lives here. Out of them, 35 million people, representing 24% of the total population in coastal districts (Second Administrative Tertiary) named as coastal areas. This coastal area covers 46080 square kilometer area which is 32% of the country. In Coastal areas, Cyclone cause great loss in any country; especially in Bangladesh. It damages not only human lives; but also damage roads, embankments and houses. Here, a huge number of coastal people and islanders lost their lives and cannot get emergency shelter facilities during cyclones due to uneven distribution and locations of existing shelters. Also, most of the rural people have lack of emergency facilities and their residents are far from existing shelters. The capacities of these existing shelters have been analyzed and found that some shelters have sufficient capacity, some needed to be extended on existing locations, while some shelters could not be extended within their existing locations. For this reason, this paper focuses to analyze current cyclone vulnerability reduction management system in Bangladesh. Lastly, it shows a possible way to need more attention to minimize vulnerability reduction in Bangladesh.