Climate Change, Locust Crisis and COVID-19 – An Overview
Muhammed Sulfikkar Ahamed is an urban planner by training. Having received his urban planning degree from NIT Calicut, he has…
Pre-Event Planning for Recovery Through the Lens of Building Back Better
The Sendai Framework for DRR is helping to inform the modernisation process to update and redesign the current Emergency Program…
Strengthening Climate Resilience from Space
SERVIR, the joint programme between USAID and NASA, uses satellite images from space to track climate shocks like droughts, floods,…
There’s Another Pandemic Under Our Noses, And It Kills 8.7m People A Year
It is undeniably horrific that more than 2.8 million people have died of COVID-19 in the past 15 months. In…
‘Relentless’ Climate Crisis Intensified in 2020, says UN Report
The coronavirus pandemic made the accelerating impacts of global heating even worse for millions of people. But the temporary dip…
Helping People Affected by Natural Hazards with Technical Knowledge to Construct Safer Houses
Dr. Eefje Hendriks is a Lecturer and Researcher at Avans University of Applied Science and Eindhoven University of Technology in…
Beyond Vulnerabilities, Towards Resilience – Children as Active Members in Resilience Building
Rama Rao Dammala is Senior Manager – Disaster Risk Management at Child Fund India. The inclusion of children in risk…
Doubling of Extreme Rainfall Events in the Himalayas
Joydeep Gupta is South Asia Director, The Third Pole. He has been writing on environmental issues ever since he covered…
Disaster Risk Assessment: A Step Towards Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr Girish Chandra Joshi is a Senior Consultant, Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Uttarakhand. A pro-active approach towards…
Equity is Crucial for Reducing Disaster Risk in Cities
Dr. Aaron Clark-Ginsberg is a social scientist at the RAND Corporation (USA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that helps improve policy…
Paradox on Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Climate Change and Natural Hazards
Dr Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin is Technical Director – DRR and Climate Resilience. He is aninternational disaster risk reduction and hazard…
Dr. Mukesh Kapila
Dr. Mukesh Kapila is Professor of Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester, UK Will the Independent Panel for…