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Disaster management strategies and relation of good governance for the coastal Bangladesh

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Prabal Barua corresponding author
Department of Enviornmental Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abhijit Mitra
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Saeid Eslamian
Center of Excellence in Risk Management and Natural Hazards, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Although Bangladesh’s immense steps in preparing the disaster management policies following the values of good governance issue, the quantity to which these policies have productively been executing at the local level remnants mostly unknown. The objectives of this investigation were dual: firstly, to inspect the roles and efficiency of the local-level governance and disaster management organization, and lastly, to recognize the obstacles to the execution of national the policies and Disaster-Risk-Reduction guidelines at the local community level. The authors applied qualitative research and case Study approach, using techniques from the Participatory Rural Appraisal toolbox to collect data from local community members as well as government and NGO officials. From the finding of the study, it was revealed that interactive disaster governance, decentralization of disaster management, and compliance by local-level institutions with good governance principles and national policy guidelines can be extremely effective in reducing disaster-loss and damages. According to coastal community members, the local governments have generally failed to uphold good governance principles, and triangulated data confirm that the region at large suffers from rampant corruption, political favoritism, lack of transparency and accountability and minimal inclusion of local inhabitants in decision-making – all of which have severely impeded the successful implementation of national disaster-management policies. This study contributes to these research gaps, with identification of further research agenda in these areas. The paper deals with International Sendai Framework that called for enhancement of local level community resilience to disasters. Thus, it contributes to numerous policy and practice areas relating to good disaster governance. The study identified the specific manifestations of these failures in coastal communities in Bangladesh. These results underscore the vital need to address the wide gap between national DRR goals and the on-the-ground realities of policy implementation to successfully enhance the country’s resilience to climate change-induced disasters.

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local-level governance, climate change, natural disaster, disaster risk reduction

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Barua, P., Mitra, A., & Eslamian, S. (2021). Disaster management strategies and relation of good governance for the coastal Bangladesh. Resources and Environmental Economics, 3(2), 269-279. https://doi.org/10.25082/REE.2021.02.002
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