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

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

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Seismic Hazard 1885 1918 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

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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

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

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Landslides 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 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

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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 2030 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

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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 & 7 th 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)

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Thank you Prof. Dr ASM Maksud Kamal Chairman, Department of Disaster Science and Management Dean, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh E-mail: maksudkamal@yahoo.com