Abstract
Bangladesh faces various types of natural hazards from its birth due to geographical location and physiographic conditions. Flood is the most common event among them. Northeastern part of Bangladesh faces flash flood almost every year with large scale of damage. Tanguar haor, (a famous Ramsar site of Bangladesh) located in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamgonj district. This wetland adjacent area is the most vulnerable zone in terms of flash flood hazard. About more than 80%, people are the direct victim of this hazard. The aim of this study was to assess the risk and resilience status of flash flood at community level. A risk and resilience assessment matrix leads to fulfill the assessment where only primary data were used. A comparative study between those statuses is computed based on Pearson correlation of co-efficient analysis that presents the difference of risk and resilience of the study area that helps to realize the emergence of flash flood risk reduction. The findings of this study will be a pathway for the policy makers, local administrators for the development of sustainable community level risk management, policy-making and its implementations.
 Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 10(2): 47-53, December 2020
Highlights
Bangladesh is one of the most flood prone countries in the world located in South Asia
Risk index of Tahirpur upazila The assessment of risk status of Tahirpur Upazila shows that the people of Uttar Sreepur and Dakshin Sreepur are in extremely high risk in terms of flash flood
There was no dearth of prescription from the government and policy makers, haor people always remained excluded from the mainstream
Summary
Bangladesh is one of the most flood prone countries in the world located in South Asia. In the last half a century, there have been six severe floods that have affected 50% of the total area of the country. Since the early sixties of the last century, the country has taken a variety of measures for flood management and has mixed experiences of success and failure (Poncelet et al, 2010). Flood is a relatively high flow of water that flows across the natural or artificial banks of a river. Flood in Bangladesh are generally divided into four major categories. These are flash flood, river flood, rain fed flood and coastal flood (Brammer, 1990). Among them flash flood is the most common hazard in northeastern region of Bangladesh
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