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Transforming the Local Capacity on Natural Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladeshi Communities: A Social Work Perspective
Author(s) -
Ali Isahaque,
Hatta Zulkarnain A.,
Azman Azlinda
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian social work and policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1753-1411
pISSN - 1753-1403
DOI - 10.1111/aswp.12023
Subject(s) - natural disaster , flash flood , natural hazard , vulnerability (computing) , disaster risk reduction , intervention (counseling) , flood myth , landslide , tornado , storm surge , work (physics) , natural (archaeology) , storm , geography , environmental planning , computer security , engineering , meteorology , psychology , mechanical engineering , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , psychiatry , computer science
Bangladesh has been a severe victim of its various sporadic natural disasters—flood, cyclone and storm surge, flash flood, drought, tornado, riverbank erosion, and landslide. Familial and societal lives and security of people are being seriously disturbed by these natural calamities every year. They also bring deadly damage to the economy and general environment of the country. Natural disasters cannot be pre‐empted at all, but their damage can be mitigated with effective responses. Social work has been a profession notably known for its intervention of people's vulnerability to natural and man‐made disasters. This concept paper discusses relevant intervention strategies and approaches to transform the local capacity of communities on natural disaster risk reduction in light of the social work profession.