The Impact of Local Elites on Disaster Preparedness Planning

The Location of Flood Shelters in Northern Bangladesh

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3122202
AutoresMozaharul Islam Khan, Md Mozaharul Islam Khan (autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas340-354
Data de publicação1991-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7717.1991.tb00473.x
PMID20958733
OpenAlexW2025697911
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

Disaster relief and preparedness organisations are concerned with allocating scarce resources in unstable environments, such as those prone to flooding and river erosion. The need to understand the role of powerful elites in such disaster prone environments is illustrated through an analysis of the actual location decisions and biases involved in siting four flood shelters in four communities in northern Bangladesh. The previously unrecognised implications of the location biases for employment, shelter, access and the utilisation of the flood shelter by the powerless people in the target group demonstrate the need for disaster organisations to include an analysis of the local power structure in project preparation and appraisal

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