Natural disasters: socio-economic impacts in bangladesh

Abstract

Bangladesh is a South Asian developing country. This country is often known as the country of natural disasters at the global level. The socio-economic impacts of natural disasters are very destructive in Bangladesh. Natural disasters cause the death of many lives almost every year and also create the risks of poverty, unemployment, disempowerment in the country, which might be a global problem in the future. Natural disasters often cause food crisis in the country as well. Due to natural disasters, many people have to depend on aids since they lose almost everything in the natural disasters like cyclones or flooding. In the context of globalized environmental degradation, Bangladesh is one of the major victims. Bangladesh has been struggling to cope with this situation for a long time. But natural disasters as well as effects of climate change often hinder the development of the country as well as many other states. So, such problem has to be solved globally; rather than locally. In this paper, the focus would be how Bangladesh faces natural disasters and how much Bangladesh is able to adjust with the situation.