Living With Floods : An Exercise in Alternatives

Contents: Preface. I. Survival Strategies: Introduction. 1. Planning against the \'Unnatural disaster\'/Imtiaz Ahmed. 2. We can avert a catastrophe if we fight unitedly/Muhammad Yunus. 3. Coping with floods/Sohela Nazneen and Lailufar Yasmin. 4. The Dhakaites: battling the deluge/Syed Imtiaz Ahmed. 5. Women coping with floods/Shaheen Anam. 6. Coping with floods: structural measures or survival strategies?/Mahbuba Nasreen. 7. Initiatives needed for a national mobilization/Rehman Sobhan. 8. Floods: no cause for complacency/Zebun Nasreen Ahmed. 9. Lessons from 1998 flood/Jahir Uddin Chowdhury. II. Sustenance and Work Opportunities: Introduction. 10. The worst is not yet over/Imtiaz Ahmed. 11. Post-flood work opportunities/Sohela Nazneen and Lailufar Yasmin. 12. People\'s "Abhimot" on flood/Muhammad Jahangir. 13. After the floods: How much food do people need and what kind?/Julian Francis. 14. Sustaining the distressed/Ishrat Zakia Sultana. 15. Making tubewells work/Syed Imtiaz Ahmed. 16. Flood control in Bangladesh: which way now?/Nazrul Islam. 17. An update on Nagarik Durjog Mokabila Udyog/Syed M. Hashemi. III. The Civic Response: Introduction. 18. Can you help?/Imtiaz Ahmed. 19. Civic response: an urban Rampart/Muhammad Ali Tareque. 20. Silent voices speak out/Syed Imtiaz Ahmed. 21. Ungendered post-flood rehabilitation/Lailufar Yasmin. 22. Apad Kalin School: schooling during calamity/Ahmed Kamal. 23. Prioritizing the environment: a civic response from abroad: Bangladesh environment network. 24. Solidarity across oceans/Sohela Nazneen. 25. The post flood period: still too early to celebrate/Syed M. Hashemi and Imtiaz Ahmed. Appendix. Index.

"Living with Floods sets out to explore the 1998 deluge in bangladesh, one that has been described as the worst flood in this century. It seeks to explain the deluge by way of reflecting on the experiential aspect of the affected millions, including that of the writers. There are altogether twenty-five articles, divided broadly into three sections, namely \'survival strategies, \'sustenance and work opportunities, and civic response. The three sections, however, mainly focus on the experiential aspect of the flood-affected people in alternatives, that is, practices that are ingeniously and indigenously arrived at but not necessarily out of the ordinary. Such practices of the flood-affected people, if properly known and universally disseminated, could prove handy if another flood of similar magnitude comes to play havoc in the lives of the people of Bangladesh." (jacket)