Role of Communities in Mainstreaming DRR and CCA
Saran Prakash D. Saran Prakash is a doctoral scholar at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute…
A Comparative Study of Two Great Earthquakes – Gujarat 2001 and Japan 2011
Anil Kumar Sinha Anil Kumar Sinha, IAS (Retd.)is the Founder and Vice-Chairman, Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA), Patna; Founder…
Earthquakes and Risk Reduction in Bihar: Developing an Understanding from Disaster Management to Disaster Risk Reduction Approach
Pravin Kumar Pravin Kumar is a Senior Research Officer at the Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA), Bihar. Though there…
Is Climate Change a Real-Time Situation? Case Studies on Water Bodies in India
Dr Shyamli Singh Dr Shyamli Singh, Deepakshi Babbar and Prof. V.K. Sharma are faculty at the Indian Institute of Public Administration…
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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…
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…
Promoting Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction in Bihar
Dushyant S. Mohil is Country Lead – Program Manager – Partners for Resilience, Wetlands International. Integrated approaches such as Eco-DRR…
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 an international disaster risk reduction and…