Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Rural （热带气旋对农村的影响）.pdf

1 Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Rural Infrastructures in Bangladesh 1 2 1 2 Hossain, M. Z. , Islam, M. T. , Sakai, T. and Ishida, M. 1Agricultural and Civil Engineering, 2Food and Agricultural Economics, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577, Kurimamachiya, Tsu-city, Mie 514-8507, Japan E-mail: zakaria@bio.mie-u.ac.jp, toriqul2000@, sakai@bio.mie-u.ac.jp, ishida@bio.mie-u.ac.jp ABSTRACT Tropical cyclone has a great impact on agricultures and rural infrastructures such as shelter, sanitation, drinking water, electricity supplies and transportation services. It causes huge damages not only to livelihoods but also to engineering structures like rural roads, dams, embankments, farm buildings and dairy houses etc. This paper depicts the results of recent studies on impact of tropical cyclones on rural and agricultural engineering infrastructures in Bangladesh based on the field visits to cyclone sites, collected data and information on damages and death of peoples. Necessary data related to tropical cyclones are obtained from available publications and news paper information reported in the recent years and previously. It is found that, in 2007, Bangladesh again witnessed unprecedented tropical cyclone called as “Sidr” caused enormous disruptions, damages and remarkable number of death of peoples. The country was yet to fully repair many of the damages done to her infrastructure due to devastating flood occurred in the same year just three months ago.