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Urban open spaces can be defined as one of the most critical component of city design that provides recreational, social, and other facilities to the city dwellers. Besides, these places have a great influence on repairing climate change impact and solving other environmental issues. Nevertheless, the concept of integrating the planning and management strategies of urban open spaces with disaster management strategy development remains unanticipated in the context of urban planning. In this study, the concept of the community participated disaster vulnerability reduction has been applied to identify associated risk, capacity, and potentiality of using open spaces for disaster management purposes. At every step, various types of participatory planning tools were used to identify the best reliable options. In the first step, the community assessed and identified associated risks regarding existing open space and waterbody preservation and use. Community people identified rapid urbanization as the major cause of open space and waterbody reduction. In the second phase, community capacity in terms of institutional organization and community resources was identified. At the final stage, opinion from community people, interview of the key informant, and expert opinion survey helped a lot to identify the potentiality of open spaces and water bodies for disaster management purposes. Community developed strategies and different types of proposals from community peoples and experts have also proposed to identify the ultimate potentiality. Although this study was conducted only for a specific community, the method can be applied to identify all of the aspects of disaster management for other communities as well.
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Akter, S., Asma Khatun, M., Dev, T., Hossain, N., Sarker, D. (2022). Potentiality Assessment of Community Open Space for Disaster Management Purpose: A Participatory Approach to Reduce Disaster Vulnerability on a Community. In: Ghosh, C., Kolathayar, S. (eds) A System Engineering Approach to Disaster Resilience. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 205. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7397-9_23
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