VOlUME 04 ISSUE 08 August 2021
Nusrat Jahan Arefin
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration,Jahangirnagar University,Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
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ABSTRACT
The study on Green City Development in Bangladesh: Way Forward provides details about formulating sustainable policy on green city development in Bangladesh. Developing a sustainable approach depends on identifying city development actors, their collective actions and finding gaps from reviewing and analyzing existing policies and strategies. The key objective of this research is to get away to make justifiable policies to ensure green city development. Theoretically, to develop the research framework of this study, the Policy Network Approaches of public policy have been used. The study outcomes demonstrate that the variables of the framework could formulate policy in the field of green development to give validity to the hypothesis. For this research, a structured questionnaire method has been used to gather data from 210 study participants of two major cities (Dhaka and Khulna) in Bangladesh. To analyze data, Excel and SPSS were used as statistical tools. The result of this study showed by identifying city development actors. Through better relationships, better coordination, and information sharing, the actors can collectively overcome existing practices to formulate policy to ensure green city development in Bangladesh. Therefore, this research will help prepare a better approach to ensure green city development in Bangladesh.
KEYWORDS:Green City, Development, Actors, Action, Correlation, Coordination, Sustainable,Policies.
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