Potential of Community Volunteers in Flood Early Warning Dissemination: A Case Study of Bangladesh
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F21%3A88457" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/21:88457 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/13010" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/24/13010</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182413010" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph182413010</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Potential of Community Volunteers in Flood Early Warning Dissemination: A Case Study of Bangladesh
Original language description
Flood early warning (FEW) is a vital component of disaster risk management and is particularly important for saving lives, developing a sustainable agro-based economy, economic stability, and the overall development of the people of Bangladesh as well as others. This study was conducted in a northern, flood-prone area of Bangladesh to investigate the potential of incorporating volunteers of the community to the Union Councils (UCs) to disseminate FEW alongside the topdown approach. Several studies have found that despite having a sophisticated flood forecasting technology, local communities are not reaping the benefits of it, as the existing dissemination system is inaccessible to most local people. Since risk communication takes place in a social context, this study investigated and thereby proposed that volunteerism, as a form of social capital or communal virtue, can potentially assist the community-based disaster management (CBDM) institutions in enhancing their capacity to reach the ma
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10510 - Climatic research
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN
1660-4601
e-ISSN
1660-4601
Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
24
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
0-0
UT code for WoS article
000738630200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120824611