Bimal Kanti Paul
Biographic Data
| ID | 95934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bimal Kanti Paul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bimal Kanti |
| FAMILY NAME | Paul |
| SIGNATURE | PAUL B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8876-0359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Understanding household decision-making in flash flood evacuations
Flash flooding poses a recurrent hazard in various regions of Bangladesh, thereby affecting a substantial portion of the country’s population. Flash floods can cause extensive damage to property and the natural environment and induce threats to people’s livelihoods. Because increased understanding of evacuation decision-making during flash floods is vital to reduce human suffering, this study investigated the characteristics and impacts of flash …
The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Response and Recovery
Disease ecology in health geography
Private housing compliance with public seismic safety measures after 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
After the Gorkha earthquake in 2015, the Nepalese government introduced a series of seismic-resistant building designs to reconstruct and repair residential dwellings. The objective of this research was to explore the extent of compliance with the new prescribed or recommended seismic-resistant features in rebuilt residential structures in two Nepal districts that were severely damaged during the earthquake. The primary source of data was a field…
Sub-national level analysis of 2015 earthquakes injury rates and determinants in Nepal
Coupled Adaptive Cycles of Shoreline Change and Households in Deltaic Bangladesh
This research investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of shoreline change and associated population impacts in deltaic Bangladesh. This region is among the world’s most dynamic deltas due to monsoon precipitation that drives tremendous discharge and sediment volumes from the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna drainage basin. Theoretically, it draws on the concept of adaptive cycles that theorizes systems transitioning through phases of growth, conservati…
Explaining mobility using the Community Capital Framework and Place Attachment concepts
A Response to “Islands, Languages and Development
View responses to this article:Identifying and Analyzing the Dominant Languages in Small Island Developing States
Natural Hazards and Disasters
This two-volume encyclopedia provides the science behind such heart-pumping geophysical hazards as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, cyclones, and floods, as well as authoritative entries on notable natural disasters around the world and the agencies that help those they impact. Natural Hazards and Disastersexplores the sometimes harsh effects of nature on human life. The set discusses the physical science behind specific types of hazards and disa…
Tracking Drought Perspectives
Rural towns are especially susceptible to the effects of drought because their economies are dependent on natural resources. However, they are also resilient in many ways to natural hazards because they are rich in civic engagement and social capital. Because of the diverse nature of drought’s impacts, understanding its complex dynamics and its effects requires a multidisciplinary approach. To study these dynamics, this research combines apprecia…
Safety Measures after the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado
Immediately following the May 2011 tornado, the city of Joplin, Missouri, initiated recovery efforts to rebuild the part of the community devastated by this event. In doing so, city officials introduced two new safety measures and recommended several others. The main objective of this paper is to explore the tornado survivors' compliance with the safety features recommended by the Joplin city authorities. Face‐to‐face interviews, as well as other…
Predictors of compliance with tornado warnings issued in Joplin, Missouri, in 2011
Joplin, a city in the southwest corner of Missouri, United States, suffered an EF-5 tornado in the late afternoon of 22 May 2011. This event, which claimed the lives of 162 people, represents the deadliest single tornado to strike the US since modern record-keeping began in 1950. This study examines the factors associated with responses to tornado warnings. Based on a post-tornado survey of survivors in Joplin, it reveals that tornado warnings we…
Spatial Analyses of the 2011 Joplin Tornado Mortality
On 22 May 2011, a massive tornado tore through a densely populated section of Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people. The EF5 tornado was the deadliest single tornado to occur in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950, surpassing the tornado of 8 June 1953, which claimed 116 lives in Flint, Michigan. The Joplin tornado death toll was also far higher than the average annual number of deaths caused by tornadoes in the United Stat…
Post-Sidr public housing assistance in Bangladesh
Housing is not only a structure, but also a process tied up with social, cultural, psychological and economic attributes. Following Cyclone Sidr, the Government of Bangladesh has been using ‘build back better’ as a colloquial slogan to push forward the idea of resilience in post-disaster interventions, especially with regard to rebuilding houses. This paper examines how and whether the idea is reflected through the government's post-Sidr housing …
Factors influencing willingness to comply with HIV/Aids prevention measures by female college students in Kolkata, West Bengal, India
A Look Ahead
Environmental Hazards and Disasters
"Written by an international team of experts, this collection provides a comprehensive account of established and emerging methods of collecting and analysing data within the framework of personal construct theory. Covers methods such as content analysis scales, repertory grid methodology, narrative assessments and drawings, the laddering and ABC techniques, and discusses how and why they are used Explores both qualitative and quantitative method…
Changes in Reproductive Behavior in Bangladesh
Cyclone evacuation in Bangladesh
Based on two separate post-cyclone pilot surveys on evacuation behaviour during two category 4 tropical cyclones in Bangladesh—Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007—this study attempts to explain why the overwhelming majority of cyclone victims did not participate in evacuation initiatives, irrespective of significant changes in cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh following 1991. Although the two surveys were conducted in different time horizons—one abou…
Opportunities and challenges in rebuilding tornado-impacted Greensburg, Kansas as “stronger, better, and greener”
Hazard Warnings and Responses to Evacuation Orders
On 15 November 2007 Cyclone Sidr, a category 4 storm, struck the southwestern coast of Bangladesh. Despite early cyclone warnings and evacuation orders for coastal residents, thousands of individuals stayed in their homes. This study examines dissemination of the warning, assesses the warning responses, and explores the reasons why many residents did not evacuate. Field data collected from 257 Sidr survivors in four severely affected coastal dist…
Urban earthquake hazard
Bangladesh is vulnerable to seismic events. Experts suspect that if an earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude occurred in large cities of Bangladesh, there would be a major human tragedy due to the structural failure of many buildings. The primary objectives of this paper are to examine seismic risk perception among residents of Dhaka City and investigate their levels of earthquake preparedness. A questionnaire survey conducted among 444 residents of th…
Why relatively fewer people died? The case of Bangladesh’s Cyclone Sidr
Exploring Location in Introductory Human Geography
The author examined the way students enrolled in the Introductory Human Geography course at Kansas State University described their hometowns using the location theme of geography. Participants completed this task as a required take-home assignment. Because the majority of students were from Kansas, the author presents results from locations of Kansas hometowns in this article. Students seemed to prefer to use relative location rather than absolu…
Disaster relief efforts
A vast literature currently exists focusing on disaster response. This literature clearly suggests that victims of natural disasters need outside support to cope with hardships and distress caused by extreme events. This is particularly true for victims in developing countries, where disasters create demands that cannot be met by domestic resources. However, many hazard researchers claim that relief goods that are often sent are not properly dist…
Evidence against disaster-induced migration
Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath of the 14 April 2004 tornado in Bangladesh. Data collected from 291 respondents from eight tornado-affected villages suggest that no one from these lo…
Hazard Warnings and Responses to Evacuation Orders
On 15 November 2007 Cyclone Sidr, a category 4 storm, struck the southwestern coast of Bangladesh. Despite early cyclone warnings and evacuation orders for coastal residents, thousands of individuals stayed in their homes. This study examines dissemination of the warning, assesses the warning responses, and explores the reasons why many residents did not evacuate. Field data collected from 257 Sidr survivors in four severely affected coastal dist…
Utilization of health facilities and trained birth attendants for childbirth in rural Bangladesh
Female Activity Space in Rural Bangladesh
Mobility and employment opportunities of women have traditionally been restricted in rural Bangladesh. As poverty increases, women in poor families seek work to support families. This trend has resulted in expansion of female activity space, after many years of stability. This article analyzes female space in the context of purdah, the patriarchal family structure, and the spatial organization of rural settlements. It discusses ethnic and other d…
Medical pluralism and infant mortality in a rural area of Bangladesh
Relief assistance to 1998 flood victims
With increasing support from the international community, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have played an important role in Bangladesh since the early 1970s in providing emergency assistance to disaster victims. After observing widespread corruption and misuse of relief aid by the Bangladesh government in 1974 and subsequent years, external sources began to channellize emergency assistance to the victims through NGOs. Realizing that NGOs wer…
Arsenic contamination awareness among the rural residents in Bangladesh
Trafficking in Bangladeshi Women and Girls
During the past two decades the quality of women's life in Bangladesh has improved significantly as their empowerment has increased. For example, the proportion of females in the country's labor force rose dramatically, from 4.5 to 50.6 percent, between 1980 and 1996 (BBS 1995,62; 1998, 167). Available evidence also suggests that some elements of traditional patriarchal structures of Bangladeshi society are breaking down, if slowly. The once-stat…
Flood Damage to Rice Crop in Bangladesh
EVERY year, almost one-third of Bangladesh is flooded. However, because of topographical characteristics, the regions of the country experience varied degrees of flooding; some parts may be under deep floodwater, others unaffected. Flooding is beneficial only within certain limits of timing, duration, and magnitude (Paul 1984; Rasid and Paul 1987). A normal flood, known as borsha in Bangladesh, generally is associated with monsoon rains that occu…
Approaches to medical geography
Urban earthquake hazard
Bangladesh is vulnerable to seismic events. Experts suspect that if an earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude occurred in large cities of Bangladesh, there would be a major human tragedy due to the structural failure of many buildings. The primary objectives of this paper are to examine seismic risk perception among residents of Dhaka City and investigate their levels of earthquake preparedness. A questionnaire survey conducted among 444 residents of th…
Tourism in Saudi Arabia
Disaster relief efforts
A vast literature currently exists focusing on disaster response. This literature clearly suggests that victims of natural disasters need outside support to cope with hardships and distress caused by extreme events. This is particularly true for victims in developing countries, where disasters create demands that cannot be met by domestic resources. However, many hazard researchers claim that relief goods that are often sent are not properly dist…
Fear of Eviction
Nearly one-third of more than 12 million residents of Dhaka, Bangladesh, live in some 4,500 unauthorized slums and squatter settlements (bustees) dispersed all across the city. In addition to crowded and non-hygienic living conditions, bustees in Dhaka have turned into a safe haven for criminals. Considering this, a previous government administration initiated a bustee demolition program in 1999. Confronted by severe resistance, the government fi…
Farmers' Responses to the Flood Action Plan (FAP) of Bangladesh
Maternal mortality in Africa
Health Search Behavior of Parents in Rural Bangladesh
In this paper, the health seeking behavior of parents in a rural area of Bangladesh who were unsuccessful in their attempt to save their child's life is dealt with. With use of univariate and multivariate techniques, the role of some selected socioeconomic, demographic, cultural, and spatial factors on the utilization of qualified doctors of modern medicine is examined. The analysis of data indicates that demographic, cultural, and spatial factor…
Health service resources as determinants of infant death in rural Bangladesh
Cyclone evacuation in Bangladesh
Based on two separate post-cyclone pilot surveys on evacuation behaviour during two category 4 tropical cyclones in Bangladesh—Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007—this study attempts to explain why the overwhelming majority of cyclone victims did not participate in evacuation initiatives, irrespective of significant changes in cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh following 1991. Although the two surveys were conducted in different time horizons—one abou…
Opportunities and challenges in rebuilding tornado-impacted Greensburg, Kansas as “stronger, better, and greener”
Shahjahanabad/Old Delhi
Aids in Asia
In the mid-1980s, when AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) was well established in North America and Africa, it was little known in Asia. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that before 2000 most new cases of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection, which causes AIDS, will occur in Asia (Mann 1992, 4; World Bank 1993, 33). Worldwide the number of HIV-infected persons will increase from nine million in 1990 to twenty-six …
Malaria in Bangladesh
M4ALARIA is a complex disease that requires an association of three factors-parasite, vector, and host-to continue its life cycle. The physical and cultural environments in Bangladesh permit the survival of at least two malarial parasites, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium falciparum, and three vectors, A. philippinesis, A. sundaicus, and A. minimus, during most of the year.' Bangladesh is considered a malaria-endemic area, and some parts of the…
A note on the hierarchy of health facilities in Bangladesh
Disease ecology in health geography
A note on the hierarchy of health facilities in Bangladesh
Perception of and agricultural adjustment to floods in Jamuna floodplain, Bangladesh
Malaria in Bangladesh
M4ALARIA is a complex disease that requires an association of three factors-parasite, vector, and host-to continue its life cycle. The physical and cultural environments in Bangladesh permit the survival of at least two malarial parasites, Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium falciparum, and three vectors, A. philippinesis, A. sundaicus, and A. minimus, during most of the year.' Bangladesh is considered a malaria-endemic area, and some parts of the…
Approaches to medical geography
Medical pluralism and infant mortality in a rural area of Bangladesh
Performance of supply-oriented family planning policy in Bangladesh
Contraceptive Intention Behavior in Rural Bangladesh
To elucidate the determinants of contraceptive use or nonuse in rural Bangladesh, Fishbein's behavioral intention model was modified and applied to survey data collected in 1984 in the Ghatail upazila of the Tangail district. The proposed behavioral model consists of 5 independent variables: global attitude, global motivation to comply, motivation toward fertility regulation, method-specific attitude, and method-specific availability. Of the 193 …
Food and Poverty
Factors Affecting Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh
The primary objective of this paper is to assess the relative contribution of different socioeconomic and environmental factors affecting infant mortality in a rural area of Bangladesh. Data from detailed interviews with 1,787 women of reproductive ages were collected and analyzed. A multivariate approach was employed to examine the relative importance of different correlates of infant mortality. Birth interval and contraceptive use emerged as th…
Health service resources as determinants of infant death in rural Bangladesh
Tourism in Saudi Arabia
Female Activity Space in Rural Bangladesh
Mobility and employment opportunities of women have traditionally been restricted in rural Bangladesh. As poverty increases, women in poor families seek work to support families. This trend has resulted in expansion of female activity space, after many years of stability. This article analyzes female space in the context of purdah, the patriarchal family structure, and the spatial organization of rural settlements. It discusses ethnic and other d…
Health Search Behavior of Parents in Rural Bangladesh
In this paper, the health seeking behavior of parents in a rural area of Bangladesh who were unsuccessful in their attempt to save their child's life is dealt with. With use of univariate and multivariate techniques, the role of some selected socioeconomic, demographic, cultural, and spatial factors on the utilization of qualified doctors of modern medicine is examined. The analysis of data indicates that demographic, cultural, and spatial factor…
Maternal mortality in Africa
Flood Damage to Rice Crop in Bangladesh
EVERY year, almost one-third of Bangladesh is flooded. However, because of topographical characteristics, the regions of the country experience varied degrees of flooding; some parts may be under deep floodwater, others unaffected. Flooding is beneficial only within certain limits of timing, duration, and magnitude (Paul 1984; Rasid and Paul 1987). A normal flood, known as borsha in Bangladesh, generally is associated with monsoon rains that occu…
Three Deltas
Gender Ratios in the Smas of Bangladesh
This paper examines the gender ratios of the Statistical Metropolitan Areas (SMAs) of Bangladesh for the last intercensal period (1981-1991) and discusses the factors that are associated with the changing gender ratios of the SMAs. The latest population census of Bangladesh suggests that the gender ratios of its four SMAs decl ined markedly during the last decade. This decline is explained in terms of the decentralization of government administra…
Science across cultures
Aids in Asia
In the mid-1980s, when AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) was well established in North America and Africa, it was little known in Asia. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that before 2000 most new cases of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection, which causes AIDS, will occur in Asia (Mann 1992, 4; World Bank 1993, 33). Worldwide the number of HIV-infected persons will increase from nine million in 1990 to twenty-six …
Farmers' Responses to the Flood Action Plan (FAP) of Bangladesh
Shahjahanabad/Old Delhi
Social dimensions in health
Flood research in Bangladesh in retrospect and prospect
National health care ‘by-passing’ in Bangladesh
Trafficking in Bangladeshi Women and Girls
During the past two decades the quality of women's life in Bangladesh has improved significantly as their empowerment has increased. For example, the proportion of females in the country's labor force rose dramatically, from 4.5 to 50.6 percent, between 1980 and 1996 (BBS 1995,62; 1998, 167). Available evidence also suggests that some elements of traditional patriarchal structures of Bangladeshi society are breaking down, if slowly. The once-stat…
Geography (38 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Economics (20 works) · Economic growth (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Socioeconomics (16 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · Psychology (15 works)