1. Prof. Dr ASM Maksud Kamal
Chairman, Department of Disaster Science and Management
Dean, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh

2. REMAINING CHALLENGES: URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change-induced disaster risk
Seismic Hazard
Fire hazard & Building Collapse
Landslide

3. Seismic Hazard
Potential Historical Earthquakes in and around Bangladesh
Existence of active fault in the country
Rapid and Unplanned Urbanization
Noncompliance of the code
Lack of awareness in all level
Seismic hazard assessment for 09 cities
Risk scenarios developed
Scenario-based contingency plan for responses
1885
1918

4. Mitigation and Response Initiatives
Risk sensitive landuse plan piloted
Capacity building training on seismic retrofitting and study carried-out
30,000 urban volunteers trained
2300 Masons & bar binders trained
School safety and evacuation drills in practice

5. Fire Hazard & Building Collapse (Man-made)
In building fire fighting system was there but not operational
Industrial, commercial & residential fire hazard increasing
Almost one big-fire hazard in every successive years
Collapse of Rana plaza and other residential buildings
Chemical storage of the shops caught fire from the source and caused rapid spreading across
Pan-cake type collapse of Rana- Plaza
Absence of proper responding and coordination mechanism
Massive community response

6. Landslides Eastern folded belt of the country subjected to landslide
Landslide vulnerability maps developed for 03 hazard prone cities
SOP & Community-based landslide early warning in place
Trained- volunteers on early warning and response operation
River-bank erosion prediction maps are in place
Eastern folded belt of the country subjected to landslide
In 2007, massive landslide killed 121 people in Chittagong
Extreme rainfall event with human interventions in hillslope caused landslides almost every years
Riverbank erosion is major disaster phenomena in the country

7. Climate Change Induced Disaster Risk
Sea-level Rise
Salinity Intrusion
Urban Flooding/Water logging
Extreme events
50 coastal towns out of 102 are severely affected by high salinity intrusion (salinity exceeded 20 dS/m)
In the recent years, most of the coastal cities got flooded with a little rainfall of about 20–30 mm
Extreme rainfall events caused severe flooding in major cities
Severe temperature observed in the last 50 years
Urban climatic induced hazard adaptation and mitigation yet to be addressed

8. Challenges Professionalizing and practicing disaster risk reduction
Effective coordination and synchronization of the responding agencies
Risk Reduction plan and policy in line with Disaster Management Act, 2012 & 7th 5 year plan
Useful mechanism to bring code into practices
Need specialized training and equipments for major responding agencies
Recognized responding system, such as, ICS to be in place
Strengthening Department of Disaster Management (DDM)

9. Thank you Prof. Dr ASM Maksud Kamal
Chairman, Department of Disaster Science and Management
Dean, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh