An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh

Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh and it has a population of 12 million. During the last three decades, while the city population grew over 7%, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city grew from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches were adopted to d...

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Main Author: Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
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spelling my.iium.irep.276802012-12-21T05:01:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27680/ An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh Mohit, Mohammad Abdul HT51 Human settlements. Communities Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh and it has a population of 12 million. During the last three decades, while the city population grew over 7%, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city grew from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches were adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka since 1975. These policies approaches were not very effective, because the scale of the problem is very large, which provides future challenges to deal with the bastee situation. Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs) and University Publication Centre (UPENA), UiTM 2012-07 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27680/1/ajebsv3n9c1p1to18.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul (2012) An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh. Asian Journal of Environment-Behaviour Studies, 3 (9). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1394-0384 http://www.fspu.uitm.edu.my/cebs ISSN 1394-0384
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Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
description Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh and it has a population of 12 million. During the last three decades, while the city population grew over 7%, bastee (slum and squatter) population of the city grew from 1.0 million in 1990 to 3.4 million in 2005. Several policy approaches were adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka since 1975. These policies approaches were not very effective, because the scale of the problem is very large, which provides future challenges to deal with the bastee situation.
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title An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
title_short An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
title_full An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
title_fullStr An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed An assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
title_sort assessment of policy approaches adopted to deal with bastee settlements of dhaka city in bangladesh
publisher Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs) and University Publication Centre (UPENA), UiTM
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/27680/1/ajebsv3n9c1p1to18.pdf
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