An Appraisal of Geographical Knowledge in Southeast Part of Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9783659382840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 80 str.

Bari Rahmatul;Huda Khondaker Mohammod Shariful

Opis

Southeast part of Bangladesh is important for agricultural condition and disaster management system in coastal region with different ethnic groups. The aim is to assess farmers vernacular knowledge on agricultural dynamics and local knowledge on disaster management in Bandarban and Coxs Bazar. The study mainly based on primary data with different methods like questionnaire, in-depth survey, observation where samplings techniques used as random and stratified (sample size 400) and data are analyzed by simple exploratory statistical analysis. The study also deals with the demographic condition, agricultural pattern, irrigation methods, harvesting methods, farmers preference, crops dynamics, causes limitations, soil types and salinity intrusion. Their perception about natural disaster and adaption strategy by the local people which includes types of disasters-natural and human induced, most frequent disaster, causes, severity, measures are taken at pre- disaster, during disaster, post disaster period and mitigation strategies. It is important to developed adaptation and mitigation strategy with indigenously and took proper planning for them by participatory process.

O autorze

Rahmatul Bari is a young researcher and currentlycompleted MS degree as a research student in geography and Env. fromJahangirnagar University.His interest in waterresource and watershed management, gender,disaster management and social research. Dr.Khondaker MohammodShariful Huda is a prominent researcher in the Bangladesh.