Mar 22 – 24, 2021
University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, Zagreb, Croatia
Europe/Zagreb timezone

Published papers

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Mr Mohammad Mizanur Rahman (Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka -1342, Bangladesh.), Mrs Sabrina Sharmin (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.)
Earthquake Risk Mitigation Policies and Management
Extended abstract

Earthquake is one of those disasters which have a direct and acquit effect on human lives and settlement. At any disaster event, the importance of hospitals is out of question. Functional hospitals are a cornerstone in a coordinated national disaster response and without it the health consequence could be disastrous. Vulnerability assessment for non-structural elements of a hospital is very...

Ms Mst. Tanzila Aktar Shawon (Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka -1342, Bangladesh. ), Mr Mohammad Mizanur Rahman (Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka -1342, Bangladesh.)
Earthquake Risk Mitigation Policies and Management
Extended abstract

Bangladesh is one of the most earthquake vulnerable countries in the world. As Bangladesh is located near to the boundary of two active plates (Indian plate in the west and Eurasian plate in the east and north) the country has invariably been under threat of an earthquake that may be so harmful that may kill people to less than a moment. With the frequency of earthquakes on the increase, it is...