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Disaster Risk Management
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Disaster Risk Management

by Dr. Huong Ha, Dr. R. S. Fernando, Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 36m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 9

Practical Knowledge in High School Students—Sufficient for Disaster Readiness or Not

The Bangladesh Perspective

Md Zahir Ahmed

Policy Research Centre, Dhaka

Akbaruddin Ahmad

Policy Research Centre, Dhaka

Oli Ahmed

Department of Psychology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong

 

Introduction

Bangladesh is a natural disaster–prone country of an area about 1,47,570 sq. km with population over 160 million (Ministry of Finance 2015) with a population growth of 1.18 percent (Worldometers 2017). Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries of the world. The population density here is 1,077/km2 (Ministry of Finance 2015). Due to its geographic and geologic setting it has a long history of both natural and man-made disasters such ...

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ISBN: 9781949443073