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 handbook is designed for media professionals who are interested in issues regarding disaster risk reduction. It aims to help conceptualize the risks, expand knowledge on how to incorporate disaster risk reduction in current programmes, and design and develop appropriate programmes to communicate the risk with relevant audiences.
Human-induced climate change, in conjunction with environmental degradation, will have unavoidable effects on cities. UN-Habitat estimates that 70% of the world
This note reports on examples of recent experience in eight countries where national and local governments and civil society participants have worked to strengthen their disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions. These cases, along with similar experience in other countries, provide a number of useful insights and lessons for climate …
The goal of Kerala Disaster Management Policy is to institute structures and systems and to establish directive principles for effective disaster risk and crisis management in order to minimise human, property, environment and livelihood losses and to contribute to the sustainability of development and better standards of living for poor …
If you think coastal districts have high relative vulnerability to flood, then you might be wrong. For, tribal dominated non-coastal districts like Gajapati, Kalahandi, Boudh, Koraput, Kandhamal, Jharsuguda, Nabarangpur and Sundargarh are with higher risk index because of the low exposure to the population. On the other hand, lower relative …
A district-level meeting was organised at the conference hall of the Deputy Commissioner, Cachar to discuss necessary steps to meet emergency situations due to possible earthquakes. The meeting was presided over by Gautam Ganguli, DC, Cachar where other dignitaries were also present. The objective of the meeting was to discuss …
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday stressed the need for enhanced public-private partnership in an early warning and effective emergency response system to mitigate the effects of disaster. He was addressing at the inaugural ceremony of the conference organised by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), marking fourth anniversary …
This report is the result of the effort to highlight the use of scientific and technical knowledge as an essential foundation for disaster risk reduction, and to make recommendations on key issues and priorities, including ways that specialist scientific and technical information can be more effectively adopted and put into …
Within few decades, climate change has quadrupled the number of natural disasters. Especially in Asia, more and more people are affected. Bangladesh is one of the countries where disaster risk reduction works fairly well. And Burma (Myanmar) is trying to enhance the crisis management after the bad experience with cyclone …
This document presents the achievements of the CDRF project, to enhance community resilience. In particular, it refers to the community owned and managed funding mechanism piloted and evolving to resource innovative solutions by grassroots women
These guidelines are an outcome of CDRF pilot initiative started in 8 states in India. CDRF has been conceived to direct funds directly to local-at-risk communities to support them in initiating and scaling up effective disaster risk reduction and adaptation practices, and in developing the necessary relationships with local and …
Climate change directly affects food security and nutrition. It undermines current efforts to protect the lives and livelihoods and end the suffering of the over 1 billion food insecure people and will increase the risk of hunger and malnutrition by an unprecedented scale within the next decades. Undernutrition is already …
This document reports on a workshop which purpose was to assess the strength and weakness of current initiatives for earthquake risk assessment, mitigation, response and recovery in South Asian region. It looks forward to help developing a roadmap for regional cooperation for a short, medium and long term basis for …
This publication intends to provide guidance on the benefits of, and ways to integrate environmental concerns into disaster risk reduction strategies (DRR) at the local and national levels. The questions this guidance note answers are: What are healthy ecosystems and ecosystem management? How can we integrate these environmental considerations into …
The Sindh government has decided to introduce a Rs 7 billion Disaster Risk Management Programme with priorities like establishing early warning systems and safety of coastal and flood zones. The programme has been proposed to be implemented in three years with a total cost of Rs 7 billion, with a …
The Sindh government has decided to introduce a Rs 7 billion Disaster Risk Management Programme with priorities like establishing early warning systems and safety of coastal and flood zones. The programme has been proposed to be implemented in three years with a total cost of Rs 7 billion, with a …
The Sri Lanka Red Cross in its latest report has stated that a total of 11,000 businesses were destroyed due to tsunami that hit the island in 2004. This was revealed by the SLRC at the recent launch of the book titled
