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    • Figure 1. 

      The path of cyclones and their landfall location generated in the Bay of Bengal from 1877 to 2016 (source: storm track data from IBTrACS, IMD).

    • Figure 2. 

      Cyclone and storm surges risk indexes[18].

    • Figure 3. 

      Houses in Urir Char project 1985[24].

    • Figure 4. 

      House of Abdul Jalil, Dangor Para, Teknaf (source: Battling The Storm, Study on Cyclone resistant housing, author).

    • Figure 5. 

      Damaged house and temporary shelter after SIDR (source: author).

    • Figure 6. 

      Left, shelter on an embankment after Aila (source: CDMP). Right, Bainpara was inundated by tidal water (source: CDMP).

    • Figure 7. 

      A modular house block considering its layout and plantation. Source: Author.

    • Figure 8. 

      A safer settlement with mangrove forest, embankment and plantation. Source: Author.

    • Figure 9. 

      Layers of plantation with height progression can act like a secondary wind barrier during the cyclone (source: author).

    • Figure 10. 

      Double-layered house shelter during tidal surge (source: author).

    • Figure 11. 

      Entry of a resilient house with indigenous joinery details found during field survey at Chakaria, Coxs' Bazar (source: Battling The Storm, Study on Cyclone Resistant Housing).

    • Figure 12. 

      An Indigenous style of corner details and roof supporting buttresses found during field survey at Chakaria, Coxs' Bazar (source: Battling The Storm, Study on Cyclone Resistant Housing).

    • Figure 13. 

      Integrated homestead farming as a sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) (source: author).