Landslides are a common hazard in the highly urbanized hilly areas in Chittagong Metropolitan Area (CMA), Bangladesh. The main cause of the landslides is torrential rain in short period of time. This area experiences several landslides each year, resulting in casualties, property damage, and economic loss. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to produce the Landslide Susceptibility Maps for CMA so that appropriate landslide disaster risk reduction strategies can be developed. In this research, three different Geographic Information System-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis methods—the Artificial Hierarchy Process (AHP), Weighted Linear Combination (WLC), and Ordered Weighted Average (OWA)—were applied to scientifically assess the landslide susceptible areas in CMA. Nine different thematic layers or landslide causative factors were considered. Then, seven different landslide susceptible scenarios were generated based on the three weighted overlay techniques. Later, the performances of the methods were validated using the area under the relative operating characteristic curves. The accuracies of the landslide susceptibility maps produced by the AHP, WLC_1, WLC_2, WLC_3, OWA_1, OWA_2, and OWA_3 methods were found as 89.80, 83.90, 91.10, 88.50, 90.40, 95.10, and 87.10 %, respectively. The verification results showed satisfactory agreement between the susceptibility maps produced and the existing data on the 20 historical landslide locations.

In Bangladesh, as in many other parts of Asia, the quality and coverage of service provision is generally poor and systems for faecal sludge management are ineffective. Both centralised and local agencies struggle to keep pace with the rate of urban development and hence many communities suffer from environmental health related problems due to the poor collection and treatment of faecal sludge. Kushtia Municipality with the support from the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and UNCRD and in partnership with the Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment & Forest, has introduced 3R (reduce, reuse and recycling of Waste) initiatives in Kushtia Pourashava through a number of interventions (i.e., source separation of waste, awareness and training programs, decentralized co-composting etc.) in 2008. The municipality has established a Compost Plant at Baradi, about 3.5 km from city center. The plant has a full time supervisor and 8 full time labors in its own to run the plant effectively. Now through 3 Vacutug (a machine of collecting faecal sludge) operations, the municipality is regularly collecting faecal sludge from the Septic-tank and Pit-latrines of the city dwellers and using it for co-composting which ultimately produces good quality compost fertilizer. However, this report illustrates the initiatives or mechanism taken by the municipality for faecal sludge management which were designed and implemented with a perspective of pro-poor development.

The term “Good Faith” is considered as a divisive term under discussion in modern English contract law. United Kingdom is an example of the most sterile jurisdiction for the growth of the term “Good Faith” although the origin of the doctrine was established in the English court. In Singapore the question of good faith has not arisen before, until the court appeal judgment in the case of Ng Giap Hon v west comb securities Pte Ltd and others. The court had the first chance of introducing the term “ Good Faith” into the contract law in Singapore, but the court of appeal just failed to do so even in a soft approach way. Mainly with the mounting importance of transitional law the impact of the term “Good Faith” on English and Singaporean law is possibly to rise in the future. This research explore how mach important the term of “Good Faith” in English and Singaporean law.

Landslides are common geophysical hazards in the highly urbanized hilly areas of Cox’s Bazar Municipality, Bangladesh. Every year, during the monsoon, landslides cause human casualties, property damage, and economic losses. Indiscriminate hill cutting, developing settlements in dangerous hill slopes, and torrential rainfall in short period of time are responsible for triggering landslide disasters. The aim of this paper is to produce landslide susceptibility maps (LSM) to help reduce the risks of landslides. Geographic information system and remote sensing-based techniques were used for LSM considering 12 relevant factor maps (i.e. slope, land cover, NDVI, geology, geomorphology, soil moisture, rainfall pattern, distance from road, drain, stream, structure, and faults–linea- ments). For the modelling purpose, four techniques were implemented—artificial hierarchy process (AHP), weighted linear combination (WLC), logistic regression (LR), and multiple logistic regression (MLR). A landslide inventory map with 74 historical landslide locations was prepared by field surveying. The modelling results are validated using the area under the relative operating characteristics curves (AUC). AUC values of AHP, WLC, LR, and MLR methods are calculated as 88, 85.90, 74.90, and 90.40 %, respectively.

Ensuring safety is one of the foremost concerns of any development activities, but Bangladesh somehow become inmate of crime and criminal offences. Crime hampers development activities in different behaviors. For tackling present crime situation of Bangladesh, the role is playing by government agencies and Special Forces for managing the crime is not speedy and reasonable. The situation is worsening day after day. It is essential that every part of the society and professionals need to play their respective roles and duties accordingly. Thus, decision-makers and the citizens should re-think about strategies to make secure living environment in the cities and ensure harmonious planned physical development in the long-run. Ensuring this concept, relevant public law enforcement authorities are following a legal mandate ensuring public safety. But, what is the result, in case of planned development hampers in the urban fringe areas due to crime? What is planners’ role and how can physical planning elements can be used as crime prevention tools? This research tries to find those answers.

This study intends to find out the reasons and processes for the deterioration of the living environment of the Dhanmondi RA. The paper sets out to study the level of liveability and sustainability of Dhanmondi by discussing the structural changes (physical, land use, etc.), the residents’ perceptions of these changes, and the effects of these changes on them. Thus, the tasks this study undertakes are: study the initial plan and form of Dhanmondi and subsequent changes that occurred; study the existing (physical, infrastructural, environmental, etc.) conditions of Dhanmondi; and measure the level of liveability and consequently sustainability of Dhanmondi on the basis of selected indicators.

EIA as an environmental management tool has been successful in terms of global awareness raising over the last four decades. Due to its rationalist approach it has been criticised about the inherent aim of influencing development decision and protecting the environment. Numerous researches have been performed to measure the ‘effectiveness of EIA’ which is still evolving as a domain. Four major criteria’s have been established till date. Effectiveness of Bangladesh EIA system has been explored with the help of those criteria. Procedural ineffectiveness seeks government measure in a couple areas mainly through institutional arrangement and capacity building. Substantive ineffectiveness reflects the global trend of failure to influence the development decision truly. Transactive effectiveness will be far reaching for a country like Bangladesh, dependent on foreign aid largely. Normative effectiveness is still little known, but mass awareness about the environment through the debate regarding an ES report is a recent experience