Disaster Risk Reduction
In this everchanging world where natural and manmade hazards are becoming part of our regular life, it is only natural to think and work to reduce the risks of hazards and hence disaster risk reduction (DRR) is broadly thought of to comply with these happenings. Risk reduction asks for adequate preparedness and mitigative measures well before a hazard inflicts upon an individual or a community. As for the research aspect, all these criteria is met while formulating the research objectives and any new research work is conducted.
For instance, Dhaka being a very risky Populus area is very sensitive to fire hazards. As a prerequisite to measure the safety level, it is necessary to evaluate individual preparedness of it among the households of this city. Communities of coastal area of Bangladesh, another vulnerable section of here, is evaluated to find out the gaps that keep them away from being a resilient community and also to identify challenges of proper preparedness and response activities in the coastal belt. Different models are applied in each of those works, so that appropriate results can be brought following a certain framework. ISM (Integrated Structural Model) is one such model which was used to incorporate the gaps and find a relation among them. According to the objective of the study; method, framework, questionnaire and data analysis is done to bring out the optimum result out of a work.