Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-729-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-729-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
Research article
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08 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 08 Mar 2022

Bangladesh's vulnerability to cyclonic coastal flooding

Aurélia Bernard, Nathalie Long, Mélanie Becker, Jamal Khan, and Sylvie Fanchette

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This article reviews current scientific literature in order to define vulnerability in the context of coastal Bangladesh facing cyclonic flooding. A new metric, called the socio-spatial vulnerability index, is defined as a function of both the probability of the cyclonic flood hazard and the sensitivity of delta inhabitants. The main result shows that three very densely populated districts, located in the Ganges delta tidal floodplain, are highly vulnerable to cyclonic flooding.
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