Disaster Management in Tajikistan
Central Asia is subject to more than 20 various types of the dangerous natural phenomena, including earthquakes, cloudbursts, landslips, avalanches and floods caused by breaking of glacial lakes. Any of these threats - especially their combination - can lead to the death of thousand people, leave millions people without a roof over the head and means of subsistence, to destroy an infrastructure, to cause problems with delivery of food and other goods, to poison the rivers and to cause long-term harm to people's health and to the economy.
URBAN FLOODING – DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION
Flood management with integrated holistic plan
Flooding is an annual event in many cities in monsoon region. Flooding occurs in coastal, deltic areas and river basins. Towns and villages are flooded with loss of life and properties. The sporadic urbanisation, unsustainable construction in water basins, filling up and silting of canals and waterbodies and inadequate drainage system are increasingly causing flood disasters in cities besides natural disasters. There are larger issues like deforestation, creation of artificial lake, construction of large dams, largescale landuse changes etc. Climate changes are expected to bring more disaster to low level countries.
COASTAL PLANNING, CONSERVATION OF BIOSPHERE AND WATER
Case Study from coastal area of Bengal
One third of the world’s urban areas is on the coast. In many countries coastal areas are vulnerable to natural disaster and there are advarse environmental impact on fragile ecology, flora and fauna. There is increasing pollution and urbanisation.