Hazardous Environment and Disastrous Impact

Abstract

The human struggle to deal with natural events is an enduring phenomenon. The stories of Bangladesh’s people, land and water together echo this persistent struggle through the arduous landscapes of plains and rivers changing in every season like the country’s tempestuous history. Bangladesh and its floodplains, which nourished India’s great civilizations, have endured the shock of frequent floods, cyclones, and famines, withstood hard poverty, Mughol and British conquest, domination by Pakistani military rulers and civil travail to be born as an independent nation. Progress and decline, hope and despair—all play out across centuries here.