Environmental Management Measures in Developing Countries and Bangladesh Scenario: A Quest for Environmental Protection and Management

Md. Jahangir Alam, Taslima Rahman

Abstract

This paper stresses incorporation of regulatory, economic and moral suasion as environmental management measures (EMM) for protecting and enriching the urban environmental management in the cities of developing country with particular focus to Bangladesh. Review shows that cities in developing countries still lack the institutional framework and major accountable for natural resource loss and environmental degradation. Based on the reviews of journals, reports and laws, this article depicted except few developing country cities, urban environment of the most cities are at stake. Analysis of this paper highlighted that the application of EMM in Bangladesh is still in the formative stage without structured framework. Finally the paper has emphasized incentive-based policies according to EMM for managing natural resources such as water, food zones, hills and reducing vehicular and industrial pollution is urgently needed for Bangladesh.

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