Impact of Riverbank Erosion on Population Displacement & Socio-economic Condition:A Case Study on River Bank of Padma,Faridpur, Bangladesh

Abstract

The study is concerned with riverbank erosion and population displacement on human dimension of the phenomenon and argues the need for a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying erosion vulnerability resulting population shifts on a micro-scale perspective in the country. Attempts have been made to portray the riverbank erosion by using both secondary data and a structured questionnaire from 2001 to 2010 and to focus the relationship between erosion hazard and dynamics of human adjustment with this hazardous situation. The study found that due to riverbank erosion in the affected area, rate of literacy decreases to 40% from 60%.Sanitation system becomes very unhygienic and most of the people of affected area become landless and marginal. Finally the study tailored some remedial policies to the particular components of vulnerability in the context of respondent’s perceptions.