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Urbanising Delta: What Lessons Dhaka Offers to Face Challenges
Md. Sadaf Abdullah1, Sara Nowreen*2, Rashed Uz Zzaman3, Sakib Hasnat4, Susmita Majumder Satu5, Md. Enayet Chowdhury6
1Department of Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Email: mdsadafabdullah.research@gmail.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-7791-6365
2Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Email: snowreen@iwfm.buet.ac.bd | ORCID: 0000-0001-8116-4020
3Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Email: shoourov011@gmail.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4788-0311
4Department of Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Email: nothasnatsakib@gmail.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-6735-6250
5Department of Civil Engineering, Presidency University, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh. Email: susmita.satu@gmail.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-7952-5616
6Lecturer, Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Email: enayetchowdhury@iwfm.buet.ac.bd | ORCID: 0000-0001-8476-0741
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Journal of Policy & Governance, 01(02) (December 2021), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.33002/jpg010201
Received: 15 October 2021
Published: 15 December 2021
Reviewed: 31 October 2021
Accepted: 10 November 2021
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Cities built on deltaic regions are always prone to environmental risks like aggravated flooding, wetland reduction, compromised water quality, continuing water scarcity, and tainted air and these have been remarkable as the challenges while urbanizing deltas. On top of that, rapid urbanization adds more to the deterioration of ecosystem functions. Drawing insights from Bangladesh's capital Dhaka lying in the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna basin, this study basically appraises the common concerns of deltaic megapolises through a systematic literature review. The current literature has been brought up by analysing the status, factors, and impacts of the challenges and management by authorities. In addition, it is further updated with some urban experts' views, secondary records on groundwater levels, and remote sensing imageries. This paper also concludes with recommended guidelines from the reviews for more practical deltaic urbanization, especially when there is no turning back for urban transferability to a new region of the delta. Particularly, success demands (1) specifying current situation in quantifiable terms (e.g., numeric values, percentages, scores, indices), (2) practical but adaptive multi-objective plans/policies with a set of assessable targets, and (3) timely robust evaluation for tracking data for specific, measurable, and meaningful outcomes.
Keywords: Megalopolis delta; Growing competition; Ecological security; Continuing challenges; Practical solution; Dhaka
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