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Waste Advantage Magazine , 2022

Academic institutions produce solid wastes that are not disposed of effectively or economically. ... more Academic institutions produce solid wastes that are not disposed of effectively or economically. The result is littering and accumulation of garbage causing pollution. This study examined Municipal waste management situations between Kuala Lumpur and Dhaka City. Bangladesh is a developing country with not enough sustainable Municipal waste management facilities. The country's capital Dhaka is one of the most populated countries in the world. But the Municipal waste management is still done manually and dumped into dumping stations without considering the environmental problems. Although, some initiatives are being taken now-a-days but still those not even close to enough. Recycling and circular economy-based initiatives are found in the country since long before but they all are in informal sector and not paying much attention. On the other hand, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is considered as one of the cleanest cities in the world. They are constantly adopting new technologies to manage their waste efficiently. They have integrated waste management system that includes efficient waste collection technique such as smart bin technology and well-structured recycling system. Comparing the two countries capital city Municipal waste management situations will reveal the lacking Bangladesh as well as other developing countries in the field of Municipal waste management situations and that's the main purpose of this study.

Academia Letters, 2021

Now a days, Solid waste management is a great concern in most of the cities of Bangladesh. It is ... more Now a days, Solid waste management is a great concern in most of the cities of Bangladesh. It is considered as one of the most immediate and serious environmental problems. Though City corporations are the mandatory to manage the job. It is mostly beyond their capacity to manage it in consideration with financial resource and manpower. As a result, Community Based Urban Solid Waste Management System is introduction and showed its remarkable success in big cities like Dhaka City Corporation. Slum dwellers are migrated from outside of Dhaka city. It is the natural phenomenon that during fall season or monsoon period, rural people are suffering for job crisis, food inadequacy, and lack of shelter due to the natural hazard like cyclone, flood, river erosion and the impacts of climate change. For better living, they are staying in slums but following rural livelihood and could never be a part of urban life. Slum dwellers are the community that serves the urban rich people in the form of transportation, garments, household works. Sometimes, some of them are seen to start their own company. In slum areas, mainly women serve the household works on their own, so they play the most vital role in disaster management. In slum area it is found that organic wastes are the predominant waste in Dhaka city. They used to recycle and reuse suitable wastes for their own or selling purposes. The paper intends to find out the existing condition of slum waste management practice in Dhaka city and prescribe strategies to ensure Participation of Slum Mothers in waste management process.

Ijisrt digital library, 2020

The management of urban solid waste is considered one of the most immediate and serious environme... more The management of urban solid waste is considered one of the most immediate and serious environmental problems facing municipal authorities in developing countries in Asia. Solid waste management is a matter of great concern in developing countries like Bangladesh. Although municipal authorities recognize the importance of proper solid waste collection and disposal as well as resource recovery and recycling, it is largely beyond their resources to deal effectively with the quantity growing solid waste generated by expanding cities. Bangladesh is a developing and densely populated country. The urbanization process is increasing day by day in this country. Dhaka is one of the busiest cities in the world.Overcrowding and huge consumption lead to large amounts of waste.Waste management is one of the most serious and instantaneous problems for Dhaka City Corporation (Islam, 2016). Due to the limited space, locating and constructing a new Solid Waste Management (SWM) facility is a major challenge in DhakaA SWM facility should be recognized socially as well as ecologically and economically. It is therefore seen as one of the most serious environmental problems faced by urban areas in both developed and developing countries. Dhaka also faces difficulties in solid waste management, as almost no sorting is done while dealing with waste, which binds the Solid Waste Management System (SWM) to paralyze and be unproductive and makes any type of recycling impossible. Old waste transportation system that operates with an inadequate number of vehicles, most of which are open to the environment and cause serious environmental pollution.In addition, the absence of a composting system results in untreated organic waste which causes serious pollution (Talukder et. al., 2011). While the current municipal solid waste disposal (MSWM) scenario is far from satisfactory, several results and estimates in the study have shown that there are sufficient ways to deal with and improve the situation. The study recommends giving the highest priority to institutional / organizational strengthening of the guardianship section since without adequate configuration, manpower and adequate equipment it will not be possible to obtain the desired improvements (Das et. al., 2015). In this paper the problems associated with existing SWM of Dhaka is critically discussed and accordingly, some remedies have been proposed such as organic waste will be transported to composting site and the other type inorganic waste will be sent to proper recycling industry. This type of composting and recyclingare proposed for its low cost. The city of Dhaka is almost surrounded by the Buriganga River and all existing dump sites in Dhaka are in addition to several rivers.

https://www.globalclimatepledge.com/, 2020

As it rained heavily outside, eight-year-old Anm Safiqul Alam Shaheen crouched on the floor of hi... more As it rained heavily outside, eight-year-old Anm Safiqul Alam Shaheen crouched on the floor of his grandfather’s house to hear his daily tales. Shaheen’s heart was beating rapidly as the story reached its climax, “… then the ghost came out and flooded the entire city of Dhaka. A woman from the village jumped onto a tree to keep her body above the water, tying her hair to the branch in case she lost grip.”

Index Terms-Disaster and Climate change resilience, Risk sensitive Land use Plan, Multi-criteria ... more Index Terms-Disaster and Climate change resilience, Risk sensitive Land use Plan, Multi-criteria Analysis.

Urbanet, News and Debates on Municipal and Local Governance, Sustainable Urban Development and Decentralization, 2017

Bangladeshi cities do not only have to face di cult climate conditions, but also increasing waves... more Bangladeshi cities do not only have to face di cult climate conditions, but also increasing waves of urban migration and the problems associated with that. URBANET spoke to ANM Sa qul Alam, managing director of the software and planning company Geomark, about how Bangladesh is facing these challenges and why he is hopeful for the future of the country. URBANET: Could you describe the situation in Bangladeshi cities at the moment, what are the challenges that they are facing?

International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER). Volume 11, Issue 7, July 2020 Edition., 2020

 Abstract-Bangladesh is a developing and densely populated country. The process of urbanization ... more  Abstract-Bangladesh is a developing and densely populated country. The process of urbanization is increasing day by day in this country. Dhaka is one of the most heavily occupied cities in the world. For this reason, there are huge environmental problems. Waste is widespread problem of Dhaka city. Over population and enormous consumption lead to large quantities of waste. Waste management is one of the most instant and serious problems of Dhaka city corporation. Plastic waste is an important issue in all countries now-a-days. Reducing or even prohibiting the plastic usage in daily life has been carried out by several countries to help creating a better environment in the future, but recently it has not been able to significantly reduce the volume of plastic waste worldwide. Recycling is one of the solutions to reduce the plastic waste. Plastic waste has huge adverse impact on natural environment because they usually don't biodegrade and remain unchanged for even millions of years. But recycling the plastic waste and reusing them can be a convenient informal business and provide employment for poor and needy. This paper tends to find out the adverse impacts of plastic waste to the environment and also how recycling plastic and other solid waste can contribute to informal economy. And finally, some recommendations have been prescribed.

Conference Presentations by DR.ANM S A F I Q U L ALAM

BAPA-ICBEN 4, 2020

ABSTRACT The operationalization of the concept of urban disaster resilience is an important miles... more ABSTRACT
The operationalization of the concept of urban disaster resilience is an important milestone in understanding both the characteristics that contribute to urban resilience to natural hazards and the interactions necessary to build and maintain them. While much attention has recently been paid to measuring resilience to urban disasters, as yet there is no optimal approach to operationalizing this concept and therefore more empirical studies are needed on what constitutes resilience to disasters and how to assess it. Bangladesh is a developing and densely populated country and the urbanization process is increasing day by day in this country. But planned development is challenging here because is the largest delta in the world and her geographical location makes her naturally prone to disasters. Unfortunately, that’s not the only issue to be worried, Bangladesh is also under the thread of global warming and climate change related issues. As because Bangladeshi land is not to high from mean sea leve, sea level rise due to global warming may submerge most of the land area of Bangladesh Although Bangladesh is not contributing much to global greenhouse gas increase, Bangladesh is one of the largest victims of the adverse impacts of global warming and climate change. To reduce the impact and damage it is necessary to formulate risk reduction land use zoning incorporating socioeconomic and geo-physical aspects. Disaster vulnerability depends on two factors. Those are infrastructural strength and economic condition. Strong physical infrastructure ensures proper connectivity and safety, on the other hand strong economy helps to recover quickly. This study intended to integrate socio economic and geo-physical aspects in formulating disaster resilience capacity zoning with the help of multi-criteria analysis technique. These types of socioeconomic and geo-physical condition analysis can help making clear understanding on the study area for making risk sensitive land use zoning.
Keywords: Disaster and Climate change resilience; Infrastructural Strength; Climate Change; Disaster resilience capacity zoning; Multi-criteria Analysis.

Malaysia Edition Global Sustainability Summit Kuala Lumpur 2019, 2019

Your Highness, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to join you today.

Books by DR.ANM S A F I Q U L ALAM

Thesis Chapters by DR.ANM S A F I Q U L ALAM

https://www.uniselinus.education/library/thesis-abu-naser-md-safiqul-alam, 2021

A Geographical Analysis for my doctor of philosophy program in Selinus University, United Kingdom... more A Geographical Analysis for my doctor of philosophy program in Selinus University, United Kingdom. Because of my involvement in this field, I’ve gathered a significant amount of knowledge on this field. Not only that, because of my working experience on various related field like Waste management, Drainage master plan, urban land use plan, socioeconomic aspects of city development, real estate etc. I felt the quest of conducting this kind of research. Housing sector is one of the most emerging sectors in Bangladesh. Due to in migration and rapid population growth, the city is under tremendous land crisis and the situation is getting worse day by day. Both public and private sector in Bangladesh is struggling to tackle the situation. In the midst of all this, private entrepreneurs also have to deal with various problems like unexpectedly unreasonable increase in the cost of construction materials at different times including various complications, harassment and procrastination to get the necessary clearance from the government department which is hindering the progress of developing housing business in this country. Although this sector has a significant contribution to the country's GDP, the industry is also making a huge contribution to the development of employment and various linkage industries. Three lakh people are being added to the population of the capital every year. Seventy thousand housing units are needed to meet the housing needs of these three-lakh people. This eleventh megacity in the world has a shortage of at least two million planned housing units. Housing units are not being built at the rate at which the pressure of people is increasing in Dhaka metropolis. On the other hands, environmental degradation is also taking place at the same pace as the rate of construction goes high. So, an optimum solution is required to handle the crisis in a sustainable manner so that both housing crisis and environmental degradation can be handled at the same time. This research focuses on specifying the problems related to this field, the reasons behind those and the extent of the problems. Finally, some planning recommendation has been prescribed as potential solutions.