External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction

Dr. Chowdhooree has been employed as an Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Programs in Disaster Management and in the Department of Architecture of BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. As an academic with interests in disaster risk reduction and architecture, he teaches courses on disaster preparedness, emergency response and recovery, humanitarian assistance, building for disaster and building technologies. In 2018 he has received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Queensland University of Technology, Australia for the thesis entitled ‘Impacts of Structural Mitigation Measures on Perceptions of Community Flood Resilience: Experiences from Haor Communities of Bangladesh’. He acquired the degree of Master of Urban and Regional Planning, as well as, his professional degree in Architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He also received the Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2010. From the same university he finished the graduate certificate program in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. He was recognized as a Young Scientist involved in disaster management research by Irrigated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) in 2017. He has worked as an intern at the head-office of UNISDR in New York and as a visiting faculty in the Department of Architecture of University of Evora, Portugal. He has also served as a sessional academic staff in the Science and Engineering Faculty of Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research work is focused on community resilience and its association with built environment, development policies and sustainable lifestyle. He is active in community-based research, sustainable design and planning and serves as a reviewer in multiple international journals and conferences. He also provides advices for disaster mitigation and urban development projects in the national level as means of transferring knowledge from the academia to practice. He is the author of many conference and journal articles and has been a member for urban planning projects in Palau and Vietnam. Mr. Ghani is employed as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, BRAC University and at present is working as the director of its Postgraduate Programs in Disaster Management. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology specializing on urban mixed-use developments. He has served as architectural consultant for numerous building and interior design projects all over Bangladesh. He was also part of post-cyclone reconstruction projects for rural communities. Before joining BRAC University, he served as a faculty at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka. His Masters research, done at BRAC University, was on Post-disaster reconstruction. His research interests include culturally appropriate interventions, risk reduction and development, sustainableurbanism and housing, housing and context, heritage and cultural landscapes at risk, etc.​

External Interventions for Enhancing Community Resilience: An Overview of Planning Paradigms.- Lessons Learned from Interventions of External Organizations in Disaster Management: A Case Study of Floods in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.- Dependency on External Supports: An Addition to Community Vulnerability.- Sustainable Development through Post-Disaster Reconstruction: A Unique Example in Sri Lanka.- Local Community Engagement for Adaptation to Future Challenges in The Pilot Flood Detention Area of Thailand.- Traditional Practices, Communities’ Aspirations, and Reconstructed End Products: Analyzing the Post-Sidr Reconstruction in the Coastal Region of Bangladesh.- Designing Spaces with Victims of Humanitarian Crisis: Action Research on Spaces for Children at Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh.- Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards A New Normal.- Disaster Risk Reduction in Cities: Towards A New Normal.- Rethinking Roles of Local Non-Governmental Organizations (LNGO) in Managing Disaster Risks in Historic Neighborhoods: Experiences from the City of Lagos, Nigeria.- A Complexity Approach for Reducing Disaster Risks for Marginalized Urban Populations: Comparing DRR Interventions across Four Cities.- Adaptation and Development for Mitigating Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Extremes.- Public and Private Sector Interventions in Post-Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Model Villages in Pakistan.- Effectiveness of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Training Programs: Views and Voices from Barisal Division, a Coastal Region in Bangladesh.- To ‘Float’ or ‘Not’: Cases of Amphibious Housing and Their Impacts on Vulnerable Communities of Jamaica.