Afroza Parvin

Khulna University | KU · Department of Architecture

The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of disaster adaptive housing upgrading in informal settlements from social vulnerability perspective. It examines the mode and extent of disaster adaptive upgrading in two South Asian cities—Khulna, Bangladesh and Kathmandu, Nepal. With an exploratory qualitative research approach, it focuses on b...

A growing population with rising per capita income has intensified the competition for limited land in Bangladesh. As regulation of land use is largely absent in rural areas, agricultural land use is getting indiscriminately converted into non-agricultural uses. This conversion is threatening agro-based food security of the country in general and o...

The increasing consumption of non-renewable energy and consequent global warming calls for use of renewable energy at scale. Bangladesh is moving toward ensuring renewable energy for all households by 2025 and has already been ranked 2nd in the world in providing off-grid solar home systems. Yet, national energy generation is largely dependent on f...

Integrating socio-economic development-led spatial-physical design intervention in traditional settlement needs a deeper understanding of the social-cultural-economic dimensions of the people, place, and environment. Such intervention at the settlement level involves the challenge of context-sensitive placemaking concerning the existing social-cult...

Bangladesh is home to millions of landless and homeless people internally displaced by extreme weather events like tropical cyclone, flooding, water surge, and riverbank erosion. State-led resettlement projects have resettled about half a million people in the last two decades with a target to resettle nearly a million more in phases. These top-dow...

Regarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in general, and SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) in particular, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has framed her political will in terms of a clearly defined philosophical statement: “My Village-My City”. This statement is an explicit expression of her national development strategies:...

This article examines the challenges in quality assurance in higher education in the context of Bangladesh through the lens of “managerial leadership.” It focuses on unveiling the issues in management and leadership that affect quality performance at program level. The public universities of Bangladesh have remained outside any internal/external as...

The purpose of this article is to reconsider the concept of progress in the context of educational colonialism in Bangladesh. It attempts to interpret contemporary conditions concerning progress in architectural education in light of a conceptual framework underpinned by two sets of terms borrowed from Freire, and Altbach and Kelly, and updated. Ba...

This chapter attempts to have an in-depth understanding of the climate change policy context of Bangladesh with regard to the notion of disaster vulnerability as a policy concern. The chapter reviews the policy from a social vulnerability perspective. With regard to the socioeconomic and environmental context of Bangladesh, it develops an analytica...

The southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh has faced thirty large-and moderate-scale natural disasters since the last two decades. Aila, the extreme disaster event, has unveiled major shortfall in the approach of conventional disaster preparedness. Gap between planned intervention and the way coastal inhabitants respond to climatic exposures has...