Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan : Strategic Environmental Assessment
Dhaka is one of the ten mega-cities in the world. Growing at a very fast rate, the population of Dhaka urban area is predicted to increase to about 21 million by 2015 from the current population of 11.3 million. Dhaka's rapid development, its...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/945651468003307657/Dhaka-metropolitan-development-plan-strategic-environmental-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36095 |
| Summary: | Dhaka is one of the ten mega-cities in
the world. Growing at a very fast rate, the population of
Dhaka urban area is predicted to increase to about 21
million by 2015 from the current population of 11.3 million.
Dhaka's rapid development, its fast-changing urban
landscape and the associated critical environmental
challenges call for holistic urban planning, strengthening
of institutions responsible for urban development and good
governance. Rapid urbanization has raised two sets of
environmental challenges in Dhaka. The first arises from
specific urban development investments which treat potential
environmental effects as externalities. The second set of
broad range of environmental issues stem from pressure on
water and land resources and indiscriminate use/misuse of
these resources. The Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA)
is a decision making tool being used for the first time by
the Government of Bangladesh to strategize and provide
direction to the preparation and implementation of the
Detailed Area Plans (DAPs). It is also a key policy
instrument which will enable the World Bank to conduct a
focused policy dialogue, provide recommendations for
institutional strengthening and address political economy
governance concerns in the context of the implementation of
DAPs in the Dhaka metropolis. Principal reasons for this
slow development of the DAP formulation process are: the
lack of higher level planning strategy; and over-ambitious
terms of reference, poor process design and inadequate
allocation of technical resources by Rajdhani Unnayan
Katripakkha (RAJUK). |
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