sustainable disaster risk reduction through risk sensitive land use planning

There are many ex ante and ex post tools to deal with disaster risk and risk reduction in urban areas. however, the most sustainable one is to incorporate disaster risk reduction (drr) measures in land use planning practices. risk sensitive land use planning (rslup) is the most promising approach for this end. this is because the drr and rslup are almost similar. they both are systematic, future-oriented, proactive, and decision-oriented. however, land use planning is a complex multidisciplinary procedure that is affected by and effects on a broad range of conditions that, to some extent, are explained in this study. a brief definition of rslup followed by its position in international agreements such as hyogo framework for action (hfa) and its successor sendai framework for disaster risk reduction is explained. then, based on experiences from risk-sensitive land use planning project for the dhaka city in bangladesh and the interaction with different stakeholders, a framework for mainstreaming drr into rslup as well as a stakeholder participation approach to obtain a consensus-based foundation for rslup to be built on it are discussed. in the end, some obstacles in the way of generation and mainstreaming the rslup are introduced and discussed.