INTRODUCTION As climate change intensifies, the danger posed by heatwaves is increasing every year. In 2015, thousands were killed in India and Pakistan, and in 2022, the death toll reached tens of...
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INTRODUCTION As climate change intensifies, the danger posed by heatwaves is increasing every year. In 2015, thousands were killed in India and Pakistan, and in 2022, the death toll reached tens of...
INTRODUCTION By Dr. Jennifer Doherty, ALNAP, UK I was grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Delhi launch of the Strengthening the Humanitarian System in India (SHSI) report in April. As...
Preamble: In an era marked by the increasingly palpable ramifications of climate change, the interplay between its impacts and humanitarian crises has intensified. Marginalised and vulnerable...
The Special issue of Southasiadisasters.net on”2022 State of the Humanitarian System Report: Reflections for Utilisation’ launched at the International Conference On Climate Change, Disaster...
Local Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic: Agenda from Affected Population As country after country moves ahead to plan local recovery and pandemic preparedness it is time to locate local...
Towards Greening Accountability After the past three waves of the pandemic now time has come to make accountability greener, that is, with smaller and even smaller carbon footprints and larger and...
In this issue of the Southasiadisasters.net titled “Building Adaptation and Resilience to Heat Waves,” we present the timely need for the mainstream implementation of adaptation strategies against...
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled, ‘National Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic’ and focuses and focuses on the question of ‘national recovery and preparedness for the pandemic’...
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This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled, ‘Global Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic’ and focuses on the various recovery and preparedness concerns related with the pandemic across the...
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ABOUT THIS ISSUE This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled, ‘Co-Creating Transformative Knowledge and Action’ and highlights the links between co-creating knowledge, societal transformations and...
Southasiadisasters.net Issue No. 200, June 2022 This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Reaching the Last Citizen in the Pandemic: An Agenda for Panchayats’ and focuses on the important theme...
Southasiadisasters.net Issue No. 199, April 2022 This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled, ‘COVID-19 Impact on Education’ and highlights the adverse impacts of the pandemic on the education...
Exposure to disaster risk is often dictated by social constructs such as gender, class, race, sexual orientation, etc. The overlap and interconnectedness of these constructs is known as...
ABOUT THIS ISSUE It has almost been 18 months since India announced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020 to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a consequence of this lockdown, schools in...
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, its impacts on women’s welfare, food and livelihood security are becoming increasingly clear. The pandemic and its concomitant lockdowns have disrupted livelihoods...
The COVID-19 pandemic has morphed from a public health disaster into a crisis that affects the entirety of our social and economic systems. While the adverse impacts of this crisis have permeated...
This issue discusses the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit India in the beginning of April 2021. What followed were two months of a dystopian nightmare unfolding in India’s cities where the...
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The ‘new urban agenda’ has emphasised the need for cities to adapt to climate change, protect their infrastructure and assets, and ensure wellbeing1 of their citizens, and many cities around the...
The civil society sector is experiencing a pressure and strain unlike it has experienced before, under the COVID-19 pandemic. To explore how the sector has responded, engaged and acted this past...
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘The Global Impact of COVID-19’, and highlights the consequences, implications, risks and opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic on our current world...