Description: One Natural Hazards and Human Perspectives.- 1 Hazardous Environment and Disastrous Impact: The Challenge of Understanding and Responding.- 2 Natural Disasters-Induced Displacement: An Overview of An Emergent Crisis.- 3 Human Coping Responses to Natural Hazards: A Survey and Critique of Approaches.- Two Riverine Hazards and Human Ecology: Bangladesh.- 4 Physical Dimensions of Riverine Hazards in the Bengal Basin: The Case of the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain.- 5 Social Class Formation and Vulnerability of the Population: A Historical Account of Human Occupance and Land Resource Management.- Three Riverbank Erosion Hazard in Serajganj District: Impacts and Responses.- 6 The Rural Study Design: The Characteristics of the Samples.- 7 Impacts of Riverbank Erosion Disaster: Understanding Differentials in Rural Socio-economic Characteristics.- 8 Coping Responses of Floodplain Users in Rural Kazipur.- 9 The Displaced Poor in Urban Environments: The Case of Squatters in Serajganj.- Four Emerging Policy Issues: Towards Sustainable Reduction of Disasters and Floodplain Development.- 10 Public Policy Issues: Water Management, Hazard Mitigation and Resettlement.- 11 Toward a Sustainable Floodplain Development Strategy.- Notes.- References.

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