- Title
- Cyclones in Bangladesh: a case study of a whole country response to rapid onset disasters
- Creator
- Tatham, Peter; Spens, Karen; Oloruntoba, Richard
- Relation
- 20th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POM 2009). POM 2009: 20th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society: Program and Proceedings (Orlando, FL 1-4 May, 2009)
- Relation
- http://www.pomsmeetings.org/ConfProceedings/011/FullPapers/Fullpaper.htm
- Publisher
- Production and Operatios Management Society (POMS)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Bangladesh, a densely populated country that is frequently beset by natural disasters, has been struck by three major cyclones in the past 37 years – but the resultant loss of life has diminished 100-fold (from some 300,000 in 1970 to around 4,000 in 2007). This bald statistic alone indicates that the Government of Bangladesh, together with a range of UN agencies and national and international NGOs, has developed an effective strategy that encompasses both disaster preparedness and response activities. This paper utilises the UK “Defence Lines of Development” model to analyse this strategy, and to identify key lessons that may be transferable to similar disasters such as the 2008 Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar/Burma that is estimated to have killed up to 1,000,000 people.
- Subject
- cyclones; humanitarian logistics; Bangladesh; disaster management; disaster strategies
- Identifier
- uon:9024
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919896
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