Floods in Bangladesh: Nature, History, Research, Causes and Types

Abstract

This chapter reviews recent literature on flood research in Bangladesh: characteristics of riverine flood including Bangladesh's national water policy and the major components, activities and their importance and criticism of the Flood Action Plan, and causes and types of floods. The chapter concludes that community based prioritise vulnerability and adaptation issues need to be immediately addressed, and structural and non-structural flood management methods, which the Government is emphasising in recent policy, need to be implemented together in order to reduce future flood vulnerability under the probable climate change regimes.