Summary Report on the Fourth Annual National Conference on Urban Resilience to Climate Change. The conference was held at Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh from 22nd to 24th October, 2019. Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: Download PDF.
FROM ISLAND TO SLUM: BANGLADESH’S QUIET DISPLACEMENT CRISIS
Sitting on a plastic chair inside a small brick house in Cox’s Bazar, the light from the evening sun shining on his tired face, 70 year-old Mahmud* recalls the day when a five-metre tidal wave engulfed his home and land on Kutubdia island, killing his wife and two sons. The ‘1991 cyclone’ was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones to ever …