Chowdhury, Md. - In: Natural Hazards 22 (2000) 2, pp. 139-163
Floods are among the most costly natural disasters interms of human sufferings and economic losses inBangladesh. Approximately 20% of the countryexperiences normal annual flooding while all thehistorical catastrophic floods inundated more thanfifty percent of the country's total area. The...