Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This report aims at developing a common action plan that would facilitate public-private partnerships (PPP) for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in East Asia, based on an evaluation of PPP case studies and consultations with stakeholders. Its outputs include: a report of the current state of PPPs for DRR in East …
Involving local communities is a prerequisite to sustainable disaster risk reduction. Local communities are both the primary victims and the first to respond to emergencies when disasters strike. Nobody is more interested in reducing disaster risk than the community whose survival and well-being is at stake. Community-based disaster risk reduction …
This document addresses development projects' impact on the environment, which may be harmful to communities and ultimately increases poverty and makes people more vulnerable to disasters. It contains an environmental assessment template and describes the six steps involved in completing this assessment, in addition to disaster and climate risk reduction …
In this article the author critically reflect on participatory processes in vulnerability research in the context of community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA). CBA is an emerging form of bottom-up adaptation to climate change. CBA is distinct in that it focuses largely on empowerment or
This study describes the areas of focus for the ADB Pacific Department's operations, identifies key gaps between country and ADB actions, as well as opportunities for scaling up ADB's assistance related to mitigation, adaptation and associated crosscutting needs. The CCIP will evolve through periodic updates to effectively guide ongoing and …
In the face of increasing disaster events and the ongoing and future impacts of global climate change, a growing body of work is emerging around community-based responses to preventing disasters and adapting to a changing climate (known as
This perspective document addresses water as a primary medium through which climate change will have an impact on people, ecosystems and economies, and aims at achieving and sustaining water security through water resources management in order to build resilience to current climate variability, while building capacity to adapt to future …
This regional manual aims at building the capacity of coastal zone managers to design and implement coastal development projects that enhance protection of lives and livelihoods, while improving environmental quality and protecting ecosystem services. It is intended to be used in regional training courses on disaster risk reduction (DRR) for …
This paper describes a community-based framework for combining different types of knowledge to address climate change. It builds on earlier work by Mercer to develop and pilot a framework for addressing disaster risk reduction in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The 52 SIDS face similar sustainability challenges, including exceptional vulnerability …
In this overview paper the authors describe how community-based approaches to climate change have emerged, and the similarities and differences between CBA and other participatory development and disaster risk reduction approaches.
A one-day workshop on safe and sustainable construction in the North East region was held at the Assam Administrative Staff College here recently. The Tata Steel, in association with the Revenue and Disaster Management Department of the State Government, organized the workshop. A large number of engineers and technocrats attended …
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Monday handed over the operational command of Urban Search and Rescue Team to Capital Development Authority (CDA) in a bid to equip the civic body with modern resources of disaster management. Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira was the chief guest …
The Defence Terrain Research Laboratory focusses on providing state-of-the-art terrain intelligence to the armed forces. "WE are proud of our laboratory and the excellent work we are doing for the Army and the Directorate General of the Border Roads Organisation [BRO]," said Major General Umang Kapoor, Director, Defence Terrain Research …
Top scientists associated with remote sensing application believe that it is now possible to predict occurrence of earthquakes with reasonable precision
Pune Road and rail traffic came to a standstill on old Mumbai-Pune highway after leakage from an LPG tanker that turned turtle near Kamshet on Tuesday. Trains switched to diesel engines in the nearby railway line due to the potential threat from overhead high tension wires. People living within the …
While the hazard profile of India tells us that about 58 per cent of its land is vulnerable to earthquake, the entire land area of the North East India falls in the highest seismic zone (i.e. Zone-V) of the country. The major reason of earthquake occurrence has been the tectonic …
Emphasising on a multi-pronged strategy for containing disasters, former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday stressed that regular de-silting of water bodies and their interlinking could help in containing disasters caused due to floods and heavy rains. At the valedictory function of the Second India Disaster Management Congress here, Kalam …
With the threat of increased disasters from climate change, many countries are already taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to weather and climatic hazards, such as floods, cyclones, heatwaves and droughts. Adaptation to climate change is a relatively new concern, but it can call on a rich tradition spanning many …
