Blog on Task 1 from Md. Mizanur Rahman

Hi

Natural disaster is increasing day by day with the increasing of the climate change. It affects most in the part of the globe where the infrastructures are more vulnerable and developments are relatively less sustainable. In Europe the rate of natural calamity and their consequence disasters are relatively less than the developing worlds. In our group discussion what we find is that the major hazards happen in Europe due to floods and we scored it 35 % and it is followed by storms / cyclones which is given  15 % scores. Tsunami, Storm surge and Earth quack are very uncommon in Europe and their potential risk are very fewer so they have been given score 1%, 2% and 2% respectively and Volcanic eruptions happens only in Italy and carries 5 % weight in our opinion. Other natural hazards like Droughts, Extreme temperature, Forest fires, and Land slides have also potential hazards in Europe and they are all scored 10%. 

My home town is situated in a developing country namely Bangladesh which has a very large population and population density is very high (1100 people per square kilometer). Due to the high pressure from the large population, the natural environment has been destroying very rapidly. For increasing the cultivable land for growing more food for the increased population, the natural forest has been destroying, until now only 8 % areas of Bangladesh have forest. The rivers, lakes, cannels have also been damaging due to rapid urbanization and industrialization in pace with the current development and GDP. When heavy down pour happens, the rain water has very few ways to discharge out to the water bodies and most of the areas in the rainy season keep under water. Floods are the main cause to make hazards in Bangladesh and I believe 50% causalities happen due to this. Cyclones, earth quack, extreme hot are causing natural hazards too. The government are now conscious about the environmental degradation and their resulting hazards but the environmental degradation continues yet. Every year, floods causing many death in the flood prone areas in Bangladesh and the trend is increasing due to increases of the sea water level. The government is trying to improve the adaptability of the natural disaster but it is not proved enough to make save the population and properties.  The people have very little motivation about these environmental hazards and they even not care to further destroy the environment.

BR

Mizanur