According to Hari Srinivas, human security is a complex issue to measure and evaluate, and different localities assign different priorities and values. For each of the indicators listed below, it will be necessary to understand its local relevance, its relation to human security itself, the variables that need to be measured, and the condition these indicators portray. The resulting information matrix is a critical starting point for policy-making that is focussed on Human Security.

Economic security

• Income: Level of Income; Access to social safety nets; Reliability of incomes; Sufficiency of incomes; Standard of living; Employment; Share of employed/unemployed; Risk of joblessness; Protection against unemployment

Food Security

• Availability and supply of food
• Access to basic food
• Quality of nutrition
• Share of the household budget for food
• Access to food during NAtural/human-made disasters

Environmental security

• Assessment of pollution of water, air
• Prevention of deforestation
• Land conservation and desertification
• Concern for environmental problems
• Ability to solve environmental problems
• Protection from toxic and hazardous wastes
• Prevention of traffic accidents and related impacts
• Natural hazard mitigation (droughts, floods, cyclones, or earthquakes)

Health Security

• Assessment of the health status
• Access to safe water
• Living in a safe environment
• Exposure to illegal drugs
• Access to housing: shelter from natural elements
• Accessibility to healthcare systems (physical and economic)
• Accessibility to safe and affordable family planning
• Quality of medical care
• prevention of HIV/AIDS and other diseases
• Health trends
• Basic awareness and knowledge on healthy lifestyles

Personal security

• Fear of violence (physical torture, war, ethnic tension, suicide, etc.)
• Prevention of accidents
• Level of crime
• Security from illegal drugs
• Efficiency of the government institutions
• Prevention of harassment and gender violence
• Prevention of domestic violence and child abuse
• Access to public information

Community security

• Fear of multinational/multiregional conflicts
• Fear of internal conflicts
• Conservation of traditional/ethnic cultures, languages, and values
• Abolishment of ethnic and any other forms of discrimination
• Protection of indigenous people

Political security

• Level of democratization
• Protection against state repression (freedom of press, speech, voting, etc.)
• Respect for basic human rights and freedom
• Democratic expectations
• Abolishment of political detention, imprisonment, torture, ill-treatment, disappearance, etc

Estimado colega, creo que un exceso de parámetros puede resultar contraproducente y generar una búsqueda interminable. Contrariamente a lo propuesto por el colega Jorge Morales Pedraza, sugiero centrarlo en los parámetros estrictamente ambientales. En países en desarrollo como los nuestros, la obtención de datos confiables suele ser de una complejidad difícil de imaginar en un país desarrollado. Al mismo tiempo, con una gran cantidad de parámetros, no estamos seguros de qué estamos midiendo con ellos.

Sugiero realizar superposición de mapas de diferentes parámetros, poniendo el acento en:

• Enfermedades ambientales de origen natural.
• Enfermedades ambientales de origen antrópico.
• Riesgos de desastres de origen natural (inundaciones, volcanes, etc.)
• Riesgos de desastres de origen antrópico (contaminación del agua, aire, derrumbes de edificios, etc.)
• Calidad del habitat (vivienda, espacios verdes, condiciones del vecindario, posibilidad de asistencia médica ante eventos ambientales etc.
• Evaluación de la efectividad de las políticas públicas para atender los problemas que anteceden.

There are seven primary dimensions to human security: community, economic, environmental, food, health, personal, and political. In Bangladesh as elsewhere, human security mapping (i.e., threat assessment, data collection and organization, and data visualization and analysis) is the first step in identifying critical and pervasive threats and formulating interventions, be they to (try to) reduce the causes or ameliorate the consequences of insecurity.

Environmental security is relatively straightforward: it covers such issues as prevention of air pollution, deforestation, natural hazards (e.g., cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, etc.), water pollution, and conservation of irrigated land. It goes without saying that the parameters to use to measure human security in relation to environmental security depend on the nature and driver(s) of the particular threat (or, possibly, mix of threats).

Human security is a basic need for the development of the society. Human security comprising issues like as food, health, education, environment, economy and others. Now a days environmental degradation is one of the important issue which affects the human security across world. One of the important cause of the environmental degradation is global warming. Due to global warming sea level is raising and many countries facing threats namely Maldives, Indonesia. As same city like Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata of India; Dhaka of Bangladesh; Hongkong all are from developing region now facing serious challenges. Due to environmental degradation flood, cyclone, droughts, rain changing the cycle. As a result developing countries (huge populated) depends on agriculture like Bangladesh facing serious challenges. Due to degradation and high growth of population land holding pattern is changing in Bangladesh which affects livelihood of Bangladeshis. So I think one parameters shoud be land holding pattern.

since the question is related to environmental degradation, priority should be given to housing security with an emphasis on the quality of housing and the quality of life in the neighborhood.

About Bangladesh, My suggestion is::

• Population Density, Non-Working Population, & Religion variation from Demographic Data

· Household types also important

For, Physical Parameter

1. Flood intensity (most vital) or historical flood inundation data intersects the village level or block level boundary.

2. Adequate Flood Capacity (adaptability) Index (periodical)

3. Drainage Density (km²)

4. Land Degradation

5. Cropping variation

6. productivity index

7. Changing nature of LULC

Other, so many indicators are available, but as you asked that due to Environmental issue, that why I have not included them.

I prefer the flood hazard because, in Bangladesh, the flood is very common because of its geophysical setups.