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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