Changing pattern of small ethnic community’s Hydro-meteorological hazards coping mechanism: an exploratory study with the Rakhaine people in Bangladesh

The aim of this study was to explore Hydro-meteorological DRR strategies of Rakhaine ethnic minorities of Potuakhali districts of Bangladesh who are one of the vulnerable coastal ethnic minorities of the southwest coastal areas of Bangladesh. To do so researcher have addressed several key factors of the Rakhaine people like rakhaine people’s coping strategies, their disaster preparedness, their dynamic actions and safeguarding process, and governance which was not specifically addressed by the earlier studies.