Papers by Dr. Mohammad NAJMUL Islam
Due to population pressure and scarcity of land in Bangladesh many poorest communities are oblige... more Due to population pressure and scarcity of land in Bangladesh many poorest communities are obliged to live in the floodplain riverine areas known as char-lands. The excess of water happens during the monsoon because of widespread flood which damages char-land settlements, agricultural crops, dwelling assets, infrastructures and communication networks. The present study clarifies some aspects of char livelihood, especially the overall risk to flood hazards and the variation of the vulnerability depending on the location of char-lands in Bangladesh. It was found that island char and attached char villages were most severely affected by annual floods. During catastrophic flood hazards the poor tried to survive by selling off their movable assets. The riverine char-land should be incorporated into the flood and erosion forecasted zones. In order to reduce damages the flood danger level and warning system need to be developed for the floodplain areas.
Riverbank erosion is one of the major natural hazards in Bangladesh. Due to population pressure a... more Riverbank erosion is one of the major natural hazards in Bangladesh. Due to population pressure and scarcity of land, many of the poorest communities in Bangladesh are obliged to live in riverine island areas known as Char-lands. The Char people are facing variations in the dynamics of rivers and Char formation and associated riverbank erosion and flood hazards. Many households of the study area are forced to move away from their homesteads due to riverbank erosion and flood. In the dwelling displacement and migration, they need adaptive management in different stages to reduce damages and vulnerabilities. The purpose of this paper is to explore better migration process and necessary conditions which enable it, and find out coping strategies of the Char-dwellers as local wisdoms. Household survey, case study and close observation methods were conducted on the Char-land study villages located on the River Padma in Bangladesh. The study revealed that village-based community migration is much better than household-based individual migration in terms of efficiency and reducing damages and insecurities during the whole migration process. Close inter-relation between gusthis, good leadership, overall financial ability, wide and close networks with different organizations, etc. are the necessary conditionswhich enable villagemigration.
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Papers by Dr. Mohammad NAJMUL Islam