Identifying Cyclone Shelter Facilities and Limitations for Enhancing Community Resiliency in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh

doi:10.34104/ajssls.021.01070118

Abstract

Amtali is a vulnerable coastal Upazila in the Barguna district of Bangladesh. It is more vulnerable to cyclone disasters. The devastating cyclone is frequently a phenomenon here. Cyclone shelter is a structural measure to decrease cyclone vulnerabilities. The main purpose of this study is to identify facilities and problems of the cyclone shelter from the people's perceptions of the study space. To accomplish the aim, a semi-structured, household questionnaire (100 individual responses) survey is used. Besides ten key informer interviews are also used to authenticate the collected information. The key findings of these lessons are insufficient shelter facilities (65% opined), unhealthy sanitation, scarcity of safe drinking water, inadequate medical facilities, limited or almost no facilities for women, especially for pregnant women. Overall facilities are not enough for the public. Perception shows that women are more vulnerable due to improper management of shelter including harassment. Many types of limitations are found in the shelters. For those reasons, individuals don’t seem to be interested to travel to cyclone shelters. Proper early warning as well as information dissemination systems are not well developed and not properly working in due times. About 70% of respondents viewed that the supervision method of cyclone shelters is unhealthy, unhygienic, and unsatisfactory levels. For enhancing people's encouragement and participation to go to cyclone shelters, healthy sanitation, safe beverage provides, proper medical facilities, separate rooms, and bogs for women must be needed to build the community more resilient. Sufficient and frequent training on cyclone shelter usability and management, communities' early warning understanding and reception, awareness-raising programs, and proper information on disaster management should be strengthened for enhancing community resiliency to cyclonic disasters.

Highlights

Due to geo graphical and regional location, Bangladesh is widely measured to be one amongst the foremost climate exposed countries in the world which has a very high population density (Nasreen et al, 2013)
Management system of cyclone shelter is not well during this space. The facilities of these Coughs to be improved that encourage a lot of individuals to come back throughout disaster scenario. This lesson is designed to identifying the facilities and problems of cyclone shelters, situation of the cyclone shelter management system, and early warning method of the study region
The secondary data was collected on various aspects related to the natural hazards specially cyclone, cyclone shelter facilities,early warning system,climate change and impacts in the coastalregion was done through literature review of books, journals, newpaper, BBS report (Rasheduzzaman et al, 2020)

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Due to geo graphical and regional location, Bangladesh is widely measured to be one amongst the foremost climate exposed countries in the world which has a very high population density (Nasreen et al, 2013). The southern region of Bangladesh is at extreme risk of climate induced disasters such as cyclones and storm surges, water level rise and river bank erosion (Obaidullah et al, 2014) Among these disasters, cyclone is taken into account because the major and most devastating disaster to the human habitation of this country. People within the coastal areas do not follow the evacuation orders due to mistrust of the warning messages (Roy et al, 2015) In this area the number of cyclone shelter is not enough than population. The facilities of these Coughs to be improved that encourage a lot of individuals to come back throughout disaster scenario This lesson is designed to identifying the facilities and problems of cyclone shelters, situation of the cyclone shelter management system, and early warning method of the study region. Government of Bangladesh can be taken necessary steps to reduce the problems

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