Speakers at a recent seminar said big projects and construction of infrastructure do not mean development, if development is not sustainable due to destruction of forests, rivers and environment.
Calling this type of development as man-made disasters, they said the poor people will be affected most in such a case.
Their observations came at the seminar on 'Man-made disasters: hills, coasts, Rohingya crisis and forests'.
Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD) organized the event at the CBCB auditorium in the city.
In his speech, chief guest economist Wahiduddin Mahmud said Rohingya crisis is one of the major humanitarian ones in the world.
But the fact is the incident of taking refuge by such a large number of people in a country within such a short period is the biggest one. This will soon become an environment-destroying incident, he added.